Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Giron in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Giron in Colombia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/05/20 / 2020-05-14 18:40:54 / May 14, 2020 @ 6:40 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70009mjb. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009mjb. Exact location of event, longitude -73.1839 West, latitude 6.9785 North, depth = 149.86 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:40:54 / 1:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 149.86 km (93 miles).

The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soatá, San Alberto, Puerto Wilches (min 5000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.1839° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.9785° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	149.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km S of Giron, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-14 18:40:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-22 17:07:00	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	271	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	2.402	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	us70009mjb	Id of event.
Event Code	70009mjb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009mjb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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