A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Mountain in Colombia on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 21:07:28 / 9:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000hhz5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hhz5. Global time and date of event 21/09/18 / 2018-09-21 02:07:28 / September 21, 2018 @ 2:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -81.1106 West, latitude 13.0811 North, depth = 10 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two 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.
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