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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Caucete in Argentina

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Caucete in Argentina. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7n7. Id of event: us2000d7n7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 11:18:59 / February 25, 2018 @ 11:18 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.02 km (34 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.6411° West, -31.4494° South, depth 54.02 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:18:59 / 8:18 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pocito, San Agustín de Valle Fértil, San Juan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km ENE of Caucete, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.6411° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.4494° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km 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	2018-02-25 11:18:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-25 12:26:59	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	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	2.572	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	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	us2000d7n7	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d7n7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d7n7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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