Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Medina in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Medina in Colombia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -73.1798° West, latitude 4.6051° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:00:08 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000q87n. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000q87n. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/06/25 / 2025-06-08 14:00:08 / June 8, 2025 @ 2:00 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nemocón, Tocancipá, Sopó. Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Villavicencio (c. 321 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Puerto López (c. 16 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cumaral (c. 11 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Garagoa (c. 11 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from La Calera (c. 10 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Sopó (c. 8 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km ENE of Medina, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.1798° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	4.6051° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km ENE of Medina, 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 14:00:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-27 14:35:19	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	271	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.162	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us7000q87n	Id of event.
Event Code	7000q87n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000q87n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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