Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Caucete in Argentina

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Caucete in Argentina. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/05/20 / 2020-05-26 19:26:04 / May 26, 2020 @ 7:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 108 km, -68.2211° West, -31.6992° South. The temblor was picked up at 16:26:04 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60009zgg. Event ids that are associated: us60009zgg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Albardón, San Martín, Chimbas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 7 km SE of Caucete, Argentina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2211° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.6992° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	108 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SE of Caucete, 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 19:26:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-28 20:59:35	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	0.423	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us60009zgg	Id of event.
Event Code	60009zgg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60009zgg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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