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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Abra Pampa in Argentina

Posted by admin on May 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.6194S, -66.4228WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Abra Pampa in Argentina. The temblor was detected at 07:20:27 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70009qj3. Event ids that are associated: us70009qj3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 271.21 km (169 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.4228° West, -22.6194° South, depth 271.21 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/05/20 / 2020-05-26 10:20:27 / May 26, 2020 @ 10:20 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abra Pampa. Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4228° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.6194° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 271.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-26 10:20:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-26 10:43:37 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 298 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 1.654 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us70009qj3 Id of event.
Event Code 70009qj3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009qj3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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