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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near San Martin de los Andes in Argentina


Earthquake location -40.2568S, -71.1867WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from San Martin de los Andes in Argentina. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 02:01:40 / January 13, 2020 @ 2:01 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -71.1867 West, latitude -40.2568 South, depth = 162.88 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:01:40 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 162.88 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70006yzw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006yzw.

Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (62 miles) from San Carlos de Bariloche (c. 95 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from San Martín de los Andes (c. 23 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Junín de los Andes (c. 10 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Villa La Angostura (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Carlos de Bariloche, Villa La Angostura, Junín de los Andes (min 5000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km SE of San Martin de los Andes, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.1867° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.2568° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 162.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SE of San Martin de los Andes, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-13 02:01:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-13 02:37:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 432 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 1.087 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006yzw Id of event.
Event Code 70006yzw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006yzw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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