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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near San Luis de Cubarral in Colombia

Posted by admin on December 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.6656S, -73.9345WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from San Luis de Cubarral in Colombia. Global time and date of event 24/12/19 / 2019-12-24 20:11:15 / December 24, 2019 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70006qq5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006qq5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -73.9345° West, latitude 3.6656° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:11:15 / 3:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Silvania, Puerto Lleras, Fómeque. Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Villavicencio (c. 321 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Fusagasuga (c. 88 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Acacías (c. 40 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Granada (c. 32 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from San Martín (c. 16 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Cumaral (c. 11 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Silvania (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km SW of San Luis de Cubarral, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.9345° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.6656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SW of San Luis de Cubarral, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-24 20:11:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-25 18:15:21 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 312 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 1.233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us70006qq5 Id of event.
Event Code 70006qq5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006qq5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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