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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Abra Pampa in Argentina

Posted by admin on November 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.9539S, -66.2115WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Abra Pampa in Argentina on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 227.74 km (142 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000645u. Event ids that are associated: us7000645u. Exact location of event, depth 227.74 km, -66.2115° West, -22.9539° South. The temblor was detected at 18:00:57 / 6:00 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/11/19 / 2019-11-06 21:00:57 / November 6, 2019 @ 9:00 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Humahuaca, Abra Pampa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Humahuaca (c. 11 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km WSW of Abra Pampa, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.9539° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 227.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km WSW of Abra Pampa, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-06 21:00:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-06 21:21:34 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 354 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 1.813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us7000645u Id of event.
Event Code 7000645u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000645u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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