Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Mendoza in Argentina

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mendoza in Argentina. Event id: us100041ct. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100041ct. The temblor was detected at 12:37:23 / 12:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.85 km (14 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 15:37:23 / November 25, 2015 @ 3:37 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.0809 West, latitude -32.9366 South, depth = 21.85 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Martín, Mendoza. Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Mendoza (c. 876 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from San Martín (c. 82 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel anything?

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: 24 km WSW of Mendoza, Argentina.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.0809° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.9366° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km WSW of Mendoza, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-25 15:37:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-25 22:37:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	200	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	1.249	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	203	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us100041ct	Id of event.
Event Code	100041ct	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100041ct,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Mendoza in Argentina

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information