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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Caucete in Argentina

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Caucete in Argentina. Exact location of earthquake, -68.2145° West, -31.6356° South, depth 107.26 km. Id of earthquake: us6000crfh. Event ids that are associated: us6000crfh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 107.26 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/20 / 2020-11-22 08:26:41 / November 22, 2020 @ 8:26 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:26:41 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Albardón, San Martín, Pocito (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop). Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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: 6 km ENE of Caucete, Argentina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2145° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.6356° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	107.26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km ENE 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	2020-11-22 08:26:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-22 08:47:53	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	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	0.41	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	70	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	us6000crfh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000crfh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000crfh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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