A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Sipí in Colombia. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000phtp. Unique identifier: us6000phtp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 08:17:20 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 04/01/25 / 2025-01-04 08:17:20 / January 4, 2025 @ 8:17 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -76.5192° West, 4.6409° North.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calarcá, Circasia, Dos Quebradas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Pereira (c. 440 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Armenia (c. 315 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Dos Quebradas (c. 179 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Tuluá (c. 165 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cartago (c. 134 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Buga (c. 118 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Calarcá (c. 62 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km E of Sipí, Colombia.
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