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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 9 km W of San Andres, Colombia


Earthquake location 6.7953S, -72.9332WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from San Andres in Colombia on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:41:45 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -72.9332° West, 6.7953° North, depth 150.97 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 02:41:45 / April 12, 2020 @ 2:41 am. Id of earthquake: us70008uic. Event ids that are associated: us70008uic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 150.97 km (94 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chinácota, Sabana de Torres, Belén (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Málaga (c. 18 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 9 km W of San Andres, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.9332° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7953° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 150.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km W of San Andres, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-12 02:41:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-12 02:59:55 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 326 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 2.379 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us70008uic Id of event.
Event Code 70008uic An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008uic, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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