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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina


Earthquake location -23.9883S, -67.0269WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 76 km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (47 miles). Global time and date of event 23/02/16 / 2016-02-23 15:19:12 / February 23, 2016 @ 3:19 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 202.4 km (126 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:19:12 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.0269 West, latitude -23.9883 South, depth = 202.4 km. Unique identifier: us10004s13. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004s13.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 76 km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0269° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.9883° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 202.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-23 15:19:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-23 17:08:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 2.208 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us10004s13 Id of event.
Event Code 10004s13 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004s13, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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