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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina

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Earthquake location -23.634S, -66.7728WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 79 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (49 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 09:56:00 / 9:56 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/11/24 / 2024-11-02 09:56:00 / November 2, 2024 @ 9:56 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 212.023 km (132 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7728 West, latitude -23.634 South, depth = 212.023 km. Unique identifier: us7000npix. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000npix.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7728° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.634° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 212.023 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-02 09:56:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-22 10:09:13 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 271 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.46 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us7000npix Id of event.
Event Code 7000npix An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000npix, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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