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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Abra Pampa in Argentina

Posted by admin on February 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.9333S, -66.3533WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Abra Pampa in Argentina on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -66.3533° West, latitude -22.9333° South, depth = 237.45 km. The temblor was detected at 11:57:48 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10004rix. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004rix. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 237.45 km (148 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/02/16 / 2016-02-21 14:57:48 / February 21, 2016 @ 2:57 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abra Pampa. Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km WSW of Abra Pampa, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3533° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.9333° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 237.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km WSW 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 2016-02-21 14:57:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-21 16:25:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 3.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us10004rix Id of event.
Event Code 10004rix An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004rix, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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