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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near San Pedro in Argentina

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from San Pedro in Argentina on Thursday. 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 29.97 km (19 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:01:45 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.7942 West, latitude -28.306 South, depth = 29.97 km. Global time and date of event 06/10/16 / 2016-10-06 07:01:45 / October 6, 2016 @ 7:01 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20007cay. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007cay.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Termas de Río Hondo, Beltrán, Icaño (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Santiago del Estero (c. 354 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Termas de Río Hondo (c. 27 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Icaño (c. 6 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Los Altos (c. 6 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Beltrán (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 53 km SE of San Pedro, Argentina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7942° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-28.306° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km SE of San Pedro, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-06 07:01:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-06 07:16:44	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	271	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	4.118	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us20007cay	Id of event.
Event Code	20007cay	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007cay,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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