Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Caucete in Argentina

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Caucete in Argentina. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.06 km (24 miles). Event id: us2000d0wy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d0wy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -67.7159° West, latitude -31.379° South, depth = 38.06 km. The temblor was reported at 19:57:32 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/01/18 / 2018-01-31 22:57:32 / January 31, 2018 @ 10:57 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pocito, San Agustín de Valle Fértil, San Juan.

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 two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km ENE of Caucete, Argentina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7159° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.379° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61km ENE of Caucete, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-31 22:57:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-22 05:09:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	298	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	2.479	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us2000d0wy	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d0wy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d0wy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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