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


Earthquake location 6.7743S, -72.9885WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cepitá in Colombia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/07/20 / 2020-07-09 03:22:51 / July 9, 2020 @ 3:22 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.9885 West, latitude 6.7743 North, depth = 159.74 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 159.74 km (99 miles). Event id: us7000akj8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000akj8. The temblor was picked up at 03:22:51 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Duitama, Yondó, Chinácota. Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 2 km NW of Cepitá, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.9885° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 159.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NW of Cepitá, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-09 03:22:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-09 03:37:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 400 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 2.33 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000akj8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000akj8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000akj8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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