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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina


Earthquake location -24.0059S, -66.8947WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 63 km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (39 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 214.036 km (133 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000nzng. Event ids that are associated: us7000nzng. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:39:21 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 22:39:21 / December 17, 2024 @ 10:39 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8947 West, latitude -24.0059 South, depth = 214.036 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-nine 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 quakes 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. 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: 63 km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8947° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.0059° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 214.036 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km WNW 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 2024-12-17 22:39:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-17 23:07:08 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 259 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.578 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us7000nzng Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzng An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzng, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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