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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Caucete in Argentina


Earthquake location -31.9735S, -67.5302WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Caucete 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). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/12/24 / 2024-12-20 10:34:55 / December 20, 2024 @ 10:34 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000p0a0. Id of event: us7000p0a0. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:34:55 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.5302° West, latitude -31.9735° South, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nueve de Julio, Caucete (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nueve de Julio (c. 7 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 79 km ESE of Caucete, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5302° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.9735° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km ESE of Caucete, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-20 10:34:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-20 12:02:51 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 312 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us7000p0a0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000p0a0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p0a0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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