Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Gachalá in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Gachalá in Colombia on Sunday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:43:00 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -73.4125° West, 4.6435° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us7000q887. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000q887. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/06/25 / 2025-06-08 23:43:00 / June 8, 2025 @ 11:43 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Bogotá (c. 7 674 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Villavicencio (c. 321 700 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Soacha (c. 313 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Zipaquirá (c. 91 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chía (c. 64 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Funza (c. 54 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mosquera, Soacha, La Mesa.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km ESE of Gachalá, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.4125° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	4.6435° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km ESE of Gachalá, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-08 23:43:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-23 23:31:41	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	259	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.927	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us7000q887	Id of event.
Event Code	7000q887	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000q887,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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