Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 101 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 101 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (63 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006e22. Unique identifier: us10006e22. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 218.8 km (136 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/16 / 2016-08-08 22:27:17 / August 8, 2016 @ 10:27 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.3146 West, latitude -24.124 South, depth = 218.8 km. The temblor was reported at 19:27:17 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 101 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.3146° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-24.124° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	218.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	101km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-08 22:27:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-23 02:59:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	234	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	1.41	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	us10006e22	Id of event.
Event Code	10006e22	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006e22,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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