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

Posted by admin on June 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.2606S, -67.0678WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 76 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (47 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:34 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 203.63 km (127 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.0678 West, latitude -24.2606 South, depth = 203.63 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/06/17 / 2017-06-05 07:15:34 / June 5, 2017 @ 7:15 am. Unique identifier: us20009kqn. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009kqn.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 76 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.2606° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 203.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km 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 2017-06-05 07:15:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-05 07:51:58 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 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 1.653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us20009kqn Id of event.
Event Code 20009kqn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009kqn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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