A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Las Ovejas in Argentina. Exact location of event, longitude -70.5963 West, latitude -36.5758 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k634. Id of event: us2000k634. The temblor was reported at 17:27:31 / 5:27 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/03/19 / 2019-03-27 20:27:31 / March 27, 2019 @ 8:27 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chos Malal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Chos Malal (c. 11 700 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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km NNE of Las Ovejas, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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