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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Termas de Rio Hondo in Argentina

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Termas de Rio Hondo in Argentina. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000dnu0. Event ids that are associated: us1000dnu0. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5371 West, latitude -27.2162 South, depth = 10 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:28:50 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/04/18 / 2018-04-19 12:28:50 / April 19, 2018 @ 12:28 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Beltrán, Simoca, San Miguel de Tucumán. Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from San Miguel de Tucumán (c. 781 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Santiago del Estero (c. 354 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Alderetes (c. 38 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Termas de Río Hondo (c. 27 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 15 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Clodomira (c. 9 000 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km NE of Termas de Rio Hondo, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5371° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-27.2162° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km NE of Termas de Rio Hondo, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-19 12:28:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-19 21:03:41	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	211	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	4.114	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000dnu0	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dnu0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dnu0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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