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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near El Hoyo in Argentina


Earthquake location -26.8963S, -63.3891WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from El Hoyo in Argentina on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003ivd. Unique identifier: us10003ivd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 559.03 km (347 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -63.3891° West, -26.8963° South, depth 559.03 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:26:48 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/09/15 / 2015-09-29 15:26:48 / September 29, 2015 @ 3:26 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Campo Gallo. Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Campo Gallo (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 21 km NW of El Hoyo, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.3891° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -26.8963° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 559.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NW of El Hoyo, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-29 15:26:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-29 18:57:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us10003ivd Id of event.
Event Code 10003ivd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003ivd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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