A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from El Cairo in Colombia. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hgnp. Unique identifier: us1000hgnp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 99.85 km (62 miles). The temblor was reported at 15:02:45 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/10/18 / 2018-10-24 20:02:45 / October 24, 2018 @ 8:02 pm. Exact location, longitude -76.294° West, latitude 4.7393° North, depth = 99.85 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yotoco, Neira, Manizales. Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Pereira (c. 440 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Manizales (c. 357 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Armenia (c. 315 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Dos Quebradas (c. 179 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tuluá (c. 165 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Cartago (c. 134 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Buga (c. 118 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 8 km WSW of El Cairo, Colombia.
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