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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 105 km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina

Posted by admin on November 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.6093S, -66.7117WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 105 kilometers (65 miles) from Abra Pampa in Argentina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -66.7117° West, latitude -22.6093° South, depth = 211.44 km. The temblor was reported at 04:40:26 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 07:40:26 / November 19, 2015 @ 7:40 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us10003zgx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zgx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 211.44 km (131 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abra Pampa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop).

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 four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 105 km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7117° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.6093° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 211.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-19 07:40:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 08:01:42 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 400 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 2.032 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us10003zgx Id of event.
Event Code 10003zgx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zgx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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