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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Mendoza in Argentina

Posted by admin on May 2, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.7455S, -69.1665WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mendoza in Argentina. Unique identifier: us10005cx5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005cx5. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.75 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:03:31 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.1665 West, latitude -32.7455 South, depth = 39.75 km. Global time and date of event 02/05/16 / 2016-05-02 02:03:31 / May 2, 2016 @ 2:03 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Mendoza (c. 876 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Martín (c. 82 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Martín, Mendoza.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 35 km WNW of Mendoza, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.1665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.7455° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km WNW 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 2016-05-02 02:03:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-02 02:55:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 313 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 1.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10005cx5 Id of event.
Event Code 10005cx5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005cx5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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