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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 67 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina


Earthquake location -24.2314S, -66.9796WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 67 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (42 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.9796 West, latitude -24.2314 South, depth = 165.17 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 165.17 km (103 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 18:33:46 / August 9, 2019 @ 6:33 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005318. Id of event: us60005318. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:33:46 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter).

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 two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9796° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.2314° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 165.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km W 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 2019-08-09 18:33:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-09 20:10:36 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 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 1.682 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60005318 Id of event.
Event Code 60005318 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005318, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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