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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Zonda in Argentina


Earthquake location -31.4937S, -68.6574WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Zonda in Argentina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us200065dq. Ids that are associated to the event: us200065dq. The temblor was picked up at 10:30:05 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 158.57 km, -68.6574° West, -31.4937° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 158.57 km (99 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/06/16 / 2016-06-19 13:30:05 / June 19, 2016 @ 1:30 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 12 km (8 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calingasta, Caucete, Nueve de Julio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km NE of Zonda, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6574° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.4937° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 158.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NE of Zonda, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-19 13:30:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-19 14:16:56 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 284 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 1.859 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us200065dq Id of event.
Event Code 200065dq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065dq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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