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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Ocamonte in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ocamonte in Colombia. Event id: us7000ny84. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ny84. The temblor was detected at 18:11:47 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -73.131 West, latitude 6.3875 North, depth = 188.698 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 188.698 km (117 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/12/24 / 2024-12-12 18:11:47 / December 12, 2024 @ 6:11 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cimitarra, Puente Nacional, Bucaramanga (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Sogamoso (c. 126 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km N of Ocamonte, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.131° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.3875° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	188.698 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km N of Ocamonte, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-12 18:11:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-12 18:32:04	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	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.494	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	us7000ny84	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ny84	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ny84,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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