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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Serrezuela in Argentina


Earthquake location -30.991S, -65.5014WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Serrezuela in Argentina. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:35:55 / 4:35 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 19:35:55 / January 25, 2018 @ 7:35 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 185.24 km (115 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.5014 West, latitude -30.991 South, depth = 185.24 km. 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: us2000cpez. Id of event: us2000cpez.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz del Eje, Villa de Soto. The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Cruz del Eje (c. 28 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Villa de Soto (c. 7 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km SSW of Serrezuela, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.5014° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.991° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 185.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SSW of Serrezuela, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-25 19:35:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-29 23:56:41 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 4.09 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000cpez Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpez An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cpez, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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