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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Nueve de Julio in Argentina

Posted by admin on September 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.6407S, -68.3669WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Nueve de Julio in Argentina. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003izx. Id of event: us20003izx. 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: 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 08:13:49 / September 12, 2015 @ 8:13 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:13:49 / 5:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.3669° West, latitude -31.6407° South, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Villa Paula de Sarmiento (c. 19 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Albardón, San Martín, Chimbas.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km NE of Nueve de Julio, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3669° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.6407° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NE of Nueve de Julio, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-12 08:13:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-12 08:53:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 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 387 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us20003izx Id of event.
Event Code 20003izx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003izx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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