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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Aguazul in Colombia


Earthquake location 5.1271S, -72.5864WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Aguazul in Colombia. Id of earthquake: us1000hgvg. Event ids that are associated: us1000hgvg. 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 48.35 km (30 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -72.5864° West, 5.1271° North, depth 48.35 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:25:59 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/10/18 / 2018-10-25 05:25:59 / October 25, 2018 @ 5:25 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Paipa, Duitama. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Sogamoso (c. 126 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Yopal (c. 61 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Villanueva (c. 20 000 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Aguazul (c. 15 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Paipa (c. 13 600 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SW of Aguazul, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.5864° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.1271° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SW of Aguazul, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-25 05:25:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-25 05:55:41 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 298 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 4.205 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us1000hgvg Id of event.
Event Code 1000hgvg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hgvg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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