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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Abra Pampa in Argentina


Earthquake location -22.6196S, -66.3129WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Abra Pampa in Argentina on Friday. Event id: us6000bhna. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bhna. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 259.25 km (161 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/20 / 2020-08-14 12:31:47 / August 14, 2020 @ 12:31 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:31:47 / 12:31 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -66.3129° West, -22.6196° South, depth 259.25 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abra Pampa. The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3129° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.6196° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 259.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km 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 2020-08-14 12:31:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-11 10:48:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 259 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 1.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us6000bhna Id of event.
Event Code 6000bhna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bhna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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