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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Abra Pampa in Argentina

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Earthquake location -22.569S, -66.3512WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Abra Pampa in Argentina on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -66.3512° West, -22.569° South, depth 279.6 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pv7m. Event ids that are associated: us6000pv7m. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 279.6 km (174 miles). Global time and date of event 24/02/25 / 2025-02-24 21:00:08 / February 24, 2025 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:00:08 / 9:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abra Pampa. Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 69 km WNW of Abra Pampa, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3512° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.569° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 279.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km WNW of Abra Pampa, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-24 21:00:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-05 22:33:16 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.729 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us6000pv7m Id of event.
Event Code 6000pv7m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pv7m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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