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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Zonda in Argentina

Posted by admin on November 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.4868S, -68.7395WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Zonda in Argentina. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006cgx. Id of event: us70006cgx. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.7395 West, latitude -31.4868 South, depth = 118.16 km. The temblor was reported at 11:41:15 / 11:41 am (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 24/11/19 / 2019-11-24 14:41:15 / November 24, 2019 @ 2:41 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118.16 km (73 miles).

Event epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Villa Paula de Sarmiento (c. 19 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calingasta, Caucete, Nueve de Julio (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 7 km N of Zonda, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7395° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.4868° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km N of Zonda, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-24 14:41:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-24 15:25:46 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 326 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 0.075 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 145 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 us70006cgx Id of event.
Event Code 70006cgx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006cgx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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