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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag strikes near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina

Posted by admin on February 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.92S, -66.6885WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 50 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (31 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.6885 West, latitude -23.92 South, depth = 200.59 km. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:10:15 / 9:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/02/17 / 2017-02-18 12:10:15 / February 18, 2017 @ 12:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20008kn8. Event ids that are associated: us20008kn8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 200.59 km (125 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 50 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6885° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.92° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 200.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-18 12:10:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-18 12:34:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.03 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 614 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 2.423 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20008kn8 Id of event.
Event Code 20008kn8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008kn8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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