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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Caucete in Argentina


Earthquake location -32.0195S, -67.7576WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Caucete in Argentina. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000802m. Id of event: us2000802m. Exact location of event, longitude -67.7576 West, latitude -32.0195 South, depth = 19.96 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.96 km (12 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/12/16 / 2016-12-12 00:05:04 / December 12, 2016 @ 12:05 am. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:05:04 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Lucía, Pocito, Nueve de Julio. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Nueve de Julio (c. 7 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km SE of Caucete, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7576° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.0195° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km SE of Caucete, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-12 00:05:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-12 00:50:24 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 0.919 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000802m Id of event.
Event Code 2000802m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000802m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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