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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Argelia in Colombia


Earthquake location 2.4112S, -77.3265WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Argelia in Colombia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 92.49 km, -77.3265° West, 2.4112° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 92.49 km (57 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/05/20 / 2020-05-10 23:10:00 / May 10, 2020 @ 11:10 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70009du7. Unique identifier: us70009du7. The temblor was reported at 18:10:00 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suárez, La Unión, San Pablo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Popayán (c. 258 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Morales (c. 29 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from El Charco (c. 28 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Patía (c. 20 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from La Unión (c. 15 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Guapi (c. 13 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from El Bordo (c. 12 100 pop).

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 two 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 19 km NNW of Argelia, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.3265° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.4112° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNW of Argelia, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-10 23:10:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-10 23:35:00 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 2.434 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us70009du7 Id of event.
Event Code 70009du7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009du7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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