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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina

Posted by admin on April 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.1738S, -67.3211WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 101 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (63 miles) on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009cdj. Id of event: us60009cdj. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.3211 West, latitude -24.1738 South, depth = 203.32 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 203.32 km (126 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:25:08 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/04/20 / 2020-04-25 20:25:08 / April 25, 2020 @ 8:25 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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: 101 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3211° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.1738° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 203.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km W 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 2020-04-25 20:25:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-25 21:25:46 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 1.448 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us60009cdj Id of event.
Event Code 60009cdj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009cdj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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