Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Calingasta in Argentina

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Calingasta in Argentina. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.9474 West, latitude -31.5181 South, depth = 106.91 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 106.91 km (66 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/02/18 / 2018-02-01 23:13:54 / February 1, 2018 @ 11:13 pm. The temblor was picked up at 20:13:54 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000ce18. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ce18.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 100 km (62 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Calingasta (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Calingasta. Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop), Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 55 km WSW of Calingasta, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.9474° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.5181° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	106.91 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km WSW of Calingasta, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-01 23:13:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-01 23:40:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	417	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	0.928	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000ce18	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ce18	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ce18,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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