A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from San Martin in Argentina. Unique identifier: us1000du2r. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000du2r. Exact location of event, longitude -68.7541 West, latitude -33.193 South, depth = 5.67 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 28/04/18 / 2018-04-28 20:49:57 / April 28, 2018 @ 8:49 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:49:57 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.67 km (4 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Mendoza (c. 876 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from San Martín (c. 82 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendoza, San Martín (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 29 km WSW of San Martin, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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