A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from San José de Jáchal in Argentina. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.2234 West, latitude -30.6437 South, depth = 121.547 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 121.547 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pmew. Unique identifier: us6000pmew. Global time and date of event 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 09:59:58 / January 26, 2025 @ 9:59 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 09:59:58 / 9:59 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calingasta, San José de Jáchal. Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from San José de Jáchal (c. 21 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Calingasta (c. 8 200 pop). Close 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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 SW of San José de Jáchal, Argentina.
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