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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Villa Basilio Nievas in Argentina


Earthquake location -31.4804S, -68.8776WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Villa Basilio Nievas in Argentina on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/04/24 / 2024-04-20 02:37:16 / April 20, 2024 @ 2:37 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 112.313 km (70 miles). Exact location, longitude -68.8776° West, latitude -31.4804° South, depth = 112.313 km. Unique identifier: us7000mddl. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mddl. The temblor was detected at 02:37:16 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Villa Paula de Sarmiento (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caucete, Calingasta, Nueve de Julio. Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 15 km WNW of Villa Basilio Nievas, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8776° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.4804° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.313 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km WNW of Villa Basilio Nievas, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-20 02:37:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-13 00:56:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us7000mddl Id of event.
Event Code 7000mddl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mddl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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