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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Trujillo in Colombia


Earthquake location 4.2525S, -76.3521WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Trujillo in Colombia on Sunday. Unique identifier: us1000dc4l. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dc4l. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:16:58 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.3521 West, latitude 4.2525 North, depth = 98.16 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 98.16 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/04/18 / 2018-04-01 15:16:58 / April 1, 2018 @ 3:16 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Cali (c. 2 392 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Armenia (c. 315 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Palmira (c. 248 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Buenaventura (c. 240 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Tuluá (c. 165 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Cartago (c. 134 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pradera, Cali, Filandia. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NW of Trujillo, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.3521° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.2525° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NW of Trujillo, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-01 15:16:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-01 16:11:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.793 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dc4l Id of event.
Event Code 1000dc4l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dc4l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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