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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina

Posted by admin on March 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.2829S, -67.2788WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 97 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (60 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 224.82 km (140 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/17 / 2017-03-09 17:01:00 / March 9, 2017 @ 5:01 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2788 West, latitude -24.2829 South, depth = 224.82 km. Unique identifier: us100087xy. Ids that are associated to the event: us100087xy. The temblor was reported at 14:01:00 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 97 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2788° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.2829° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 224.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km W 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 2017-03-09 17:01:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-22 23:03:33 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 259 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 2.238 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us100087xy Id of event.
Event Code 100087xy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100087xy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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