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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near San Martin in Argentina


Earthquake location -33.8129S, -68.6287WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from San Martin in Argentina. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:30:38 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.6287° West, -33.8129° South, depth 22.43 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007uln. Unique identifier: us10007uln. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/17 / 2017-01-21 09:30:38 / January 21, 2017 @ 9:30 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.43 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael, San Martín. Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from San Rafael (c. 109 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Martín (c. 82 500 pop).

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 was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 82 km S of San Martin, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6287° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.8129° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km S of San Martin, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-21 09:30:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-21 09:53:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 356 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 1.314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us10007uln Id of event.
Event Code 10007uln An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007uln, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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