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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 23 km NW of Yuto, Argentina

Posted by admin on February 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.4992S, -64.6382WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Yuto in Argentina. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jj5u. Unique identifier: us2000jj5u. The temblor was reported at 10:22:08 / 10:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/02/19 / 2019-02-17 13:22:08 / February 17, 2019 @ 1:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -64.6382° West, -23.4992° South.

The epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) from San Salvador de Jujuy (c. 305 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (c. 74 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Pedro (c. 58 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Libertador General San Martín (c. 49 300 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Palpalá (c. 48 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Embarcación (c. 24 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Fraile Pintado (c. 13 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palpalá, San Salvador de Jujuy, San Pedro. Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km NW of Yuto, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.4992° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NW of Yuto, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-17 13:22:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-17 13:40:46 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 385 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 3.302 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000jj5u Id of event.
Event Code 2000jj5u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jj5u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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