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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Caucete in Argentina


Earthquake location -31.6238S, -67.6428WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Caucete in Argentina on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005buk. Id of event: us10005buk. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.4 km (13 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 02:16:52 / April 27, 2016 @ 2:16 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 23:16:52 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.6428° West, latitude -31.6238° South, depth = 20.4 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pocito, Albardón, Villa Paula de Sarmiento. Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Villa Paula de Sarmiento (c. 19 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 60 km E of Caucete, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6428° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.6238° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km E of Caucete, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-27 02:16:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-27 02:37:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 385 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 0.892 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us10005buk Id of event.
Event Code 10005buk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005buk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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