A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Mountain in Colombia. 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. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:42:31 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 04:42:31 / December 16, 2018 @ 4:42 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ivvl. Id of event: us2000ivvl. Exact location of earthquake, -81.1764° West, 13.1859° North, depth 10 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 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 three, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 28 km SE of Mountain, Colombia.
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