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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Betania in Colombia

Posted by admin on April 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.6691S, -76.0261WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Betania in Colombia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 95.43 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008l6q. Id of event: us70008l6q. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/04/20 / 2020-04-02 03:15:51 / April 2, 2020 @ 3:15 am. Exact location, longitude -76.0261° West, latitude 5.6691° North, depth = 95.43 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:15:51 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter).

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 Manzanares, Cartago, Cocorná. Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Medellín (c. 2 000 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Pereira (c. 440 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Bello (c. 392 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Manizales (c. 357 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Itagüí (c. 281 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Dos Quebradas (c. 179 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Envigado (c. 163 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km SSW of Betania, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.0261° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6691° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of Betania, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-02 03:15:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-02 03:36:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 406 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 1.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us70008l6q Id of event.
Event Code 70008l6q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008l6q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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