A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from San Martín in Argentina. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 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 time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/24 / 2024-05-13 00:33:52 / May 13, 2024 @ 12:33 am. Id of earthquake: us6000my6r. Event ids that are associated: us6000my6r. The temblor was picked up at 00:33:52 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.4952° West, -33.384° South, depth 10 km.
Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Mendoza (c. 876 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from San Martín (c. 82 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendoza, San Martín (min 5000 pop). Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 33 km S of San Martín, Argentina.
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