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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Anelo in Argentina

Posted by admin on March 7, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.5425S, -68.8789WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Anelo in Argentina on Thursday. Event id: us1000jbq5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jbq5. Exact location, longitude -68.8789° West, latitude -38.5425° South, depth = 15.9 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/03/19 / 2019-03-07 05:10:37 / March 7, 2019 @ 5:10 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:10:37 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.9 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Neuquén (c. 242 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Cipolletti (c. 75 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Cutral-Có (c. 47 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Centenario (c. 29 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Plottier (c. 25 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cinco Saltos (c. 19 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was General Fernández Oro, Cipolletti, Neuquén. Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km SSW of Anelo, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8789° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.5425° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSW of Anelo, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-07 05:10:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-07 11:45:37 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 298 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 2.54 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us1000jbq5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jbq5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jbq5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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