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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Cepitá in Colombia


Earthquake location 6.7886S, -73.0323WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Cepitá in Colombia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.0323 West, latitude 6.7886 North, depth = 164.52 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/07/20 / 2020-07-22 19:21:58 / July 22, 2020 @ 7:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:21:58 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 164.52 km (102 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b257. Id of event: us6000b257.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barrancabermeja, Belén, Sabana de Torres (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km WNW of Cepitá, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 164.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km WNW 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 2020-07-22 19:21:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-22 19:40:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us6000b257 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b257 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b257, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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