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Strong earthquake: M6 quake has struck near Mountain in Colombia

Posted by admin on November 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.159S, -81.1606WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Mountain in Colombia on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/11/18 / 2018-11-25 03:40:51 / November 25, 2018 @ 3:40 am. Event id: us1000hwaj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00piqcvz, us1000hwaj, pt18329000. The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:40:51 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -81.1606° West, 13.159° North. A tsunami warning has been issued near Mountain in Colombia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 32 km SE of Mountain, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.1606° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.159° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SE of Mountain, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-25 03:40:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-25 03:59:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.22 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 554 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 ,at,us,pt, 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 0.292 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 26 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hwaj Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwaj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00piqcvz,us1000hwaj,pt18329000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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