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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina


Earthquake location -24.2013S, -67.3761WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 107 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/04/17 / 2017-04-02 02:41:07 / April 2, 2017 @ 2:41 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 23:41:07 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.3761 West, latitude -24.2013 South, depth = 232.58 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008dvq. Unique identifier: us10008dvq. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 232.58 km (145 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 107 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3761° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.2013° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 232.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107km 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 2017-04-02 02:41:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-19 03:23:58 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 298 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 2.118 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us10008dvq Id of event.
Event Code 10008dvq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008dvq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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