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Light earthquake 4 mag, 84 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina

Posted by admin on November 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.0843S, -67.1357WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 84 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (52 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.1357 West, latitude -24.0843 South, depth = 219.04 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 00:39:45 / October 19, 2017 @ 12:39 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 219.04 km (136 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:39:45 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000atxe. Id of event: us1000atxe.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 84 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1357° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.0843° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 219.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2017-10-19 00:39:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-10 06:00:42 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 246 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 1.478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us1000atxe Id of event.
Event Code 1000atxe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000atxe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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