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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near San Martin de los Andes in Argentina

Posted by admin on September 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -39.81S, -71.6819WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from San Martin de los Andes in Argentina. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000h7gj. Unique identifier: us2000h7gj. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/09/18 / 2018-09-04 00:20:07 / September 4, 2018 @ 12:20 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 139.97 km (87 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.6819 West, latitude -39.81 South, depth = 139.97 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:20:07 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loncoche, Villarrica, Pucón. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Villarrica (c. 31 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Pucón (c. 27 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from San Martín de los Andes (c. 23 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Panguipulli (c. 16 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Loncoche (c. 15 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Junín de los Andes (c. 10 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop), Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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 has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 48 km NW of San Martin de los Andes, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.6819° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.81° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 139.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km NW of San Martin de los Andes, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-04 00:20:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-04 00:49:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 355 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 0.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us2000h7gj Id of event.
Event Code 2000h7gj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h7gj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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