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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near San Juan in Argentina

Posted by admin on July 16, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.5159S, -68.5892WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from San Juan in Argentina. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/07/17 / 2017-07-14 23:25:01 / July 14, 2017 @ 11:25 pm. Id of earthquake: us20009wgw. Event ids that are associated: us20009wgw. The temblor was detected at 20:25:01 / 8:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.5892° West, -31.5159° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calingasta, Caucete, Nueve de Julio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 6 km (3 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km WNW of San Juan, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5892° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.5159° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WNW of San Juan, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-14 23:25:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-16 21:51:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 223 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 0.086 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20009wgw Id of event.
Event Code 20009wgw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009wgw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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