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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Bolívar in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Bolívar in Colombia. Event id: us6000qzq9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qzq9. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/08/25 / 2025-08-11 00:16:31 / August 11, 2025 @ 12:16 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:16:31 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 148.057 km, -76.1983° West, 4.3671° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 148.057 km (92 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Belén de Umbría, Palestina, Dagua. Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Pereira (c. 440 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Armenia (c. 315 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Palmira (c. 248 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Dos Quebradas (c. 179 600 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Tuluá (c. 165 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Cartago (c. 134 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Buga (c. 118 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 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 one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 3 km NNW of Bolívar, Colombia.

Armenia Belén de Umbría Bolivar Buga Cartago Colombia Dagua Dos Quebradas Palestina Palmira Pereira Tuluá

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.1983° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	4.3671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	148.057 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km NNW of Bolívar, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-11 00:16:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-11 00:31:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	341	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.93	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93	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	us6000qzq9	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qzq9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qzq9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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