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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 29 km SW of Bahía Solano, Colombia


Earthquake location 6.0156S, -77.5689WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Bahía Solano in Colombia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/25 / 2025-01-10 08:14:32 / January 10, 2025 @ 8:14 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 08:14:32 / 8:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.31 km (10 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -77.5689 West, latitude 6.0156 North, depth = 16.31 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pj4s. Event ids that are associated: us6000pj4s.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quibdó. Epicenter of the earthquake was 107 km (66 miles) from Quibdó (c. 75 100 pop). Close 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 one and in the last 365 days three 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km SW of Bahía Solano, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.5689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.0156° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km SW of Bahía Solano, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-10 08:14:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-10 08:30:21 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 4.415 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 82 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us6000pj4s Id of event.
Event Code 6000pj4s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pj4s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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