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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near El Hoyo in Argentina


Earthquake location -26.8136S, -63.3507WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from El Hoyo in Argentina. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 567.25 km (352 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/18 / 2018-03-25 14:28:34 / March 25, 2018 @ 2:28 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -63.3507 West, latitude -26.8136 South, depth = 567.25 km. The temblor was detected at 11:28:34 / 11:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000d8vi. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d8vi.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Campo Gallo (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campo Gallo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km NNW of El Hoyo, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.3507° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -26.8136° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 567.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km NNW of El Hoyo, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-25 14:28:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-25 14:47:07 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 1.91 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 5.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us1000d8vi Id of event.
Event Code 1000d8vi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d8vi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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