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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near La Rioja in Argentina


Earthquake location -29.492S, -66.8227WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from La Rioja in Argentina on Monday. Global time and date of event 10/05/16 / 2016-05-10 02:50:56 / May 10, 2016 @ 2:50 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10005ge3. Event ids that are associated: us10005ge3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.51 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -66.8227° West, latitude -29.492° South, depth = 19.51 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:50:56 / 11:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 9 km (6 miles) from La Rioja (c. 162 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chilecito (c. 42 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chilecito, La Rioja.

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 9 km SSE of La Rioja, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8227° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.492° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSE of La Rioja, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-10 02:50:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-10 21:08:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 178 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 2.601 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us10005ge3 Id of event.
Event Code 10005ge3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ge3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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