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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 33 km SW of Santiago del Estero, Argentina


Earthquake location -27.9703S, -64.5434WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Santiago del Estero in Argentina. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007e0i. Unique identifier: us10007e0i. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5434 West, latitude -27.9703 South, depth = 28.81 km. 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 28.81 km (18 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:45:40 / 7:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/12/16 / 2016-12-01 10:45:40 / December 1, 2016 @ 10:45 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Santiago del Estero (c. 354 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Termas de Río Hondo (c. 27 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Clodomira (c. 9 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Los Altos (c. 6 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Beltrán (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Altos, Termas de Río Hondo, Clodomira (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 33 km SW of Santiago del Estero, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5434° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.9703° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SW of Santiago del Estero, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-01 10:45:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-01 23:21:19 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 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 4.231 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us10007e0i Id of event.
Event Code 10007e0i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007e0i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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