A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Vinchina in Argentina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 105.69 km (66 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2256 West, latitude -29.3978 South, depth = 105.69 km. Global time and date of event 17/06/16 / 2016-06-17 13:41:35 / June 17, 2016 @ 1:41 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000651l. Id of event: us2000651l. The temblor was detected at 10:41:35 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Chilecito (c. 42 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chilecito.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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