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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Belen in Argentina


Earthquake location -27.9484S, -66.6615WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Belen in Argentina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/07/16 / 2016-07-20 16:28:55 / July 20, 2016 @ 4:28 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 156.02 km (97 miles). Unique identifier: us20006g7l. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006g7l. The temblor was reported at 13:28:55 / 1:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.6615° West, -27.9484° South, depth 156.02 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Tinogasta (c. 14 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Andalgalá (c. 14 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arauco (c. 13 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tinogasta, Arauco, Andalgalá (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km SE of Belen, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.9484° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 156.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km SE of Belen, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-20 16:28:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-21 03:21:38 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 298 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 2.458 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us20006g7l Id of event.
Event Code 20006g7l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006g7l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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