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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Zonda in Argentina

Posted by admin on November 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.5428S, -68.6738WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Zonda in Argentina on Saturday. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:58:35 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007clr. Id of event: us10007clr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/16 / 2016-11-26 20:58:35 / November 26, 2016 @ 8:58 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 105.18 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -68.6738° West, -31.5428° South, depth 105.18 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Villa Paula de Sarmiento (c. 19 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calingasta, Caucete, Nueve de Julio.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 5 km E of Zonda, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6738° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.5428° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E 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 2016-11-26 20:58:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-26 22:31:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 326 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 0.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us10007clr Id of event.
Event Code 10007clr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007clr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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