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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Albardón in Argentina

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Earthquake location -31.2967S, -68.5792WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Albardón in Argentina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 108.519 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000p0m0. Event ids that are associated: us7000p0m0. Exact location, longitude -68.5792° West, latitude -31.2967° South, depth = 108.519 km. Global time and date of event 21/12/24 / 2024-12-21 16:16:57 / December 21, 2024 @ 4:16 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 16:16:57 / 4:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calingasta, Caucete, Nueve de Julio. Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Villa Paula de Sarmiento (c. 19 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km NNW of Albardón, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5792° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.2967° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.519 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km NNW of Albardón, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-21 16:16:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-15 23:05:19 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.264 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us7000p0m0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000p0m0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p0m0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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