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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 64 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina


Earthquake location -23.7665S, -66.7152WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 64 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (40 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/11/20 / 2020-11-25 16:44:44 / November 25, 2020 @ 4:44 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000csjy. Event ids that are associated: us6000csjy. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:44:44 / 4:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 188.92 km (117 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -66.7152° West, latitude -23.7665° South, depth = 188.92 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7152° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.7665° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 188.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km NW 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 2020-11-25 16:44:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-02 03:55:17 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 1.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us6000csjy Id of event.
Event Code 6000csjy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000csjy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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