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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Mendoza in Argentina

Posted by admin on July 27, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.3514S, -68.9252WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Mendoza in Argentina. Exact location of earthquake, -68.9252° West, -33.3514° South, depth 2.448 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.448 km (2 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:47:35 / 2:47 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: usd0011its. Ids that are associated to the event: usd0011its. Global time and date of event 27/07/24 / 2024-07-27 02:47:35 / July 27, 2024 @ 2:47 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Mendoza (c. 876 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from San Martín (c. 82 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Martín, Mendoza. Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 51 km S of Mendoza, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9252° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.3514° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.448 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51 km S of Mendoza, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-27 02:47:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-27 03:02:49 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 138 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID usd0011its Id of event.
Event Code d0011its An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usd0011its, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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