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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Merlo in Argentina

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Merlo in Argentina on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:29:36 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/18 / 2018-04-18 15:29:36 / April 18, 2018 @ 3:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -65.0045° West, latitude -32.3044° South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000e274. Event ids that are associated: us2000e274.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Río Tercero (c. 53 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Villa Dolores (c. 28 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Embalse (c. 15 900 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Merlo (c. 11 200 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Almafuerte (c. 10 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Santa Rosa de Calamuchita (c. 9 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Despeñaderos, Río Tercero, Almafuerte (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km NNE of Merlo, Argentina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0045° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.3044° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NNE of Merlo, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-18 15:29:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-18 22:13:51	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	234	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	4.575	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us2000e274	Id of event.
Event Code	2000e274	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000e274,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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