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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Villa de Soto in Argentina

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Villa de Soto in Argentina on Sunday. 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 188.69 km (117 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/20 / 2020-02-16 03:47:49 / February 16, 2020 @ 3:47 am. Exact location, longitude -65.3199° West, latitude -30.9264° South, depth = 188.69 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007r5s. Id of event: us70007r5s. The temblor was detected at 00:47:49 / 12:47 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mina Clavero, Cosquín, Valle Hermoso (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Cruz del Eje (c. 28 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Cosquín (c. 19 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from La Falda (c. 15 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Capilla del Monte (c. 9 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Villa de Soto (c. 7 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from La Cumbre (c. 7 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km WSW of Villa de Soto, Argentina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3199° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.9264° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	188.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km WSW of Villa de Soto, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-16 03:47:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-16 04:08:20	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	284	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	2.947	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us70007r5s	Id of event.
Event Code	70007r5s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007r5s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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