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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near General Mosconi in Argentina

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from General Mosconi in Argentina on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -63.7723 West, latitude -22.8736 South, depth = 530.751 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 530.751 km (330 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000n7ap. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7ap. The temblor was picked up at 22:50:43 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/24 / 2024-08-15 22:50:43 / August 15, 2024 @ 10:50 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Ramón de la Nueva Orán, Embarcación, Tartagal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (c. 74 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tartagal (c. 60 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Embarcación (c. 24 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from General Enrique Mosconi (c. 19 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 31 km S of General Mosconi, Argentina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-63.7723° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-22.8736° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	530.751 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km S of General Mosconi, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-15 22:50:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-16 02:46:36	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	234	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.288	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	us7000n7ap	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n7ap	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n7ap,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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