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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Chilecito in Argentina


Earthquake location -28.6193S, -67.4146WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Chilecito in Argentina. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 181.98 km (113 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 181.98 km, -67.4146° West, -28.6193° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:54:29 / 2:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60007gkz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007gkz. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 17:54:29 / January 26, 2020 @ 5:54 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Chilecito (c. 42 200 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Tinogasta (c. 14 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arauco (c. 13 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tinogasta, Chilecito, Arauco (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 60 km N of Chilecito, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4146° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -28.6193° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 181.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km N of Chilecito, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-26 17:54:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 19:29:07 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 312 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 2.338 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us60007gkz Id of event.
Event Code 60007gkz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007gkz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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