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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Puerto Wilches in Colombia

Posted by admin on May 11, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.3646S, -73.8432WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Puerto Wilches in Colombia on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us7000pymq. Event ids that are associated: us7000pymq. Global time and date of event 11/05/25 / 2025-05-11 10:41:51 / May 11, 2025 @ 10:41 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 10:41:51 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -73.8432° West, 7.3646° North, depth 97.474 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 97.474 km (61 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedecuesta, Floridablanca, Zapatoca. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Puerto Wilches (c. 13 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Sabana de Torres (c. 11 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km ENE of Puerto Wilches, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.8432° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.3646° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97.474 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km ENE of Puerto Wilches, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-11 10:41:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-11 10:58:35 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 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 102 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.646 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 72 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 us7000pymq Id of event.
Event Code 7000pymq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pymq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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