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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Londres in Argentina

Posted by admin on February 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -27.9366S, -67.0121WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Londres in Argentina. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jiza. Unique identifier: us2000jiza. The temblor was picked up at 19:44:28 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 194.66 km (121 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 22:44:28 / February 16, 2019 @ 10:44 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -67.0121 West, latitude -27.9366 South, depth = 194.66 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Andalgalá, Arauco, Fiambalá (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Tinogasta (c. 14 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Andalgalá (c. 14 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Arauco (c. 13 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Fiambalá (c. 8 100 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 27 km SSE of Londres, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.9366° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 194.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SSE of Londres, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-16 22:44:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-17 00:25:10 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 2.179 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us2000jiza Id of event.
Event Code 2000jiza An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jiza, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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