Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Puerto Parra in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Puerto Parra in Colombia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 44.41 km (28 miles). Id of earthquake: us70008yja. Event ids that are associated: us70008yja. Exact location of event, longitude -73.8746 West, latitude 6.5725 North, depth = 44.41 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 03:34:45 / April 11, 2020 @ 3:34 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:34:45 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Remedios, Puerto Wilches, Moniquirá (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Puerto Berrío (c. 34 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barbosa (c. 20 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Socorro (c. 17 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Puerto Wilches (c. 13 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km ESE of Puerto Parra, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.8746° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.5725° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km ESE of Puerto Parra, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-11 03:34:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-17 22:27:30	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	284	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	1.772	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us70008yja	Id of event.
Event Code	70008yja	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008yja,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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