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Light earthquake 4 mag, 111 km NNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina


Earthquake location -23.3811S, -66.9188WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 111 km NNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (69 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:32:37 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 220.51 km (137 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9188 West, latitude -23.3811 South, depth = 220.51 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us600051v9. Unique identifier: us600051v9. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/19 / 2019-07-30 13:32:37 / July 30, 2019 @ 1:32 pm.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and six 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 111 km NNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9188° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.3811° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 220.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111km NNW 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 2019-07-30 13:32:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-07 17:06:57 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 246 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 1.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us600051v9 Id of event.
Event Code 600051v9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600051v9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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