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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Aratoca in Colombia


Earthquake location 6.8052S, -73.038WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 148.66 km, -73.038° West, 6.8052° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60003s3s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60003s3s. The temblor was reported at 10:13:35 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/05/19 / 2019-05-25 15:13:35 / May 25, 2019 @ 3:13 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 148.66 km (92 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Belén, Toledo, Sabana de Torres.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 five and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 12 km N of Aratoca, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.038° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8052° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 148.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km N of Aratoca, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-25 15:13:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-25 16:28:08 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 271 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 0.907 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us60003s3s Id of event.
Event Code 60003s3s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003s3s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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