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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Cubara in Colombia


Earthquake location 7.0399S, -72.0659WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cubara in Colombia on Friday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:36:47 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ec86. Id of event: us1000ec86. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 17:36:47 / May 25, 2018 @ 5:36 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.79 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -72.0659° West, latitude 7.0399° North, depth = 46.79 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Táriba, Chinácota, Málaga (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 246 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Rubio (c. 51 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tame (c. 29 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Táriba (c. 27 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Málaga (c. 18 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km NE of Cubara, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.0399° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NE of Cubara, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-25 17:36:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-25 19:30:53 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 2.316 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us1000ec86 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ec86 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ec86, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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