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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina


Earthquake location -23.4829S, -66.8893WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 100 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (62 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 10:41:30 / January 14, 2020 @ 10:41 am. The temblor was picked up at 07:41:30 / 7:41 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 256.67 km (159 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70006zkf. Event ids that are associated: us70006zkf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8893 West, latitude -23.4829 South, depth = 256.67 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 100 km NW 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 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8893° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.4829° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 256.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km NW 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 2020-01-14 10:41:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-14 11:18:28 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 271 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 1.298 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 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 mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006zkf Id of event.
Event Code 70006zkf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006zkf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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