A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Calingasta in Argentina. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008vty. Id of event: us10008vty. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/05/17 / 2017-05-27 21:40:19 / May 27, 2017 @ 9:40 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:40:19 / 6:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -69.6629 West, latitude -30.8481 South, depth = 114.5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 114.5 km (71 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Calingasta (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calingasta (min 5000 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 58 km NNW of Calingasta, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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