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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near San José de Jáchal in Argentina

Posted by admin on February 23, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.9927S, -69.1721WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from San José de Jáchal in Argentina. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114.41 km (71 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dk9x. Id of event: us6000dk9x. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/02/21 / 2021-02-22 23:14:20 / February 22, 2021 @ 11:14 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:14:20 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -69.1721° West, latitude -29.9927° South, depth = 114.41 km.

Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from San José de Jáchal (c. 21 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San José de Jáchal.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 49 km NW of San José de Jáchal, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.1721° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.9927° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km NW of San José de Jáchal, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-22 23:14:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-23 00:05:58 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 326 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 0.799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000dk9x Id of event.
Event Code 6000dk9x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dk9x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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