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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina

Posted by admin on October 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.3931S, -67.5377WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 125 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (78 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/10/18 / 2018-10-15 15:04:10 / October 15, 2018 @ 3:04 pm. Exact location of event, depth 206.66 km, -67.5377° West, -24.3931° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 206.66 km (128 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:04:10 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000hcbr. Event ids that are associated: us1000hcbr.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 125 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5377° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.3931° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 206.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-15 15:04:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-15 15:47:14 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 284 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 2.017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us1000hcbr Id of event.
Event Code 1000hcbr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hcbr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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