A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Zonda in Argentina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us200080cp. Unique identifier: us200080cp. The temblor was detected at 21:34:08 / 9:34 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/12/16 / 2016-12-13 00:34:08 / December 13, 2016 @ 12:34 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 129.04 km (80 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.7 West, latitude -31.6264 South, depth = 129.04 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calingasta, Caucete, Nueve de Julio. Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km SSE of Zonda, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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