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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near San Jose de Jachal in Argentina


Earthquake location -29.645S, -69.335WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from San Jose de Jachal in Argentina. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.01 km (76 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/01/20 / 2020-01-03 12:01:47 / January 3, 2020 @ 12:01 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70006u5k. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006u5k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -69.335° West, -29.645° South, depth 123.01 km. The temblor was reported at 09:01:47 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San José de Jáchal. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from San José de Jáchal (c. 21 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 87 km NW of San Jose de Jachal, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.645° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km NW of San Jose de Jachal, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-03 12:01:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 13:32:06 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 246 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 0.738 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us70006u5k Id of event.
Event Code 70006u5k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006u5k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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