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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Abra Pampa in Argentina


Earthquake location -22.9027S, -66.5814WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Abra Pampa in Argentina. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/04/25 / 2025-04-02 15:35:32 / April 2, 2025 @ 3:35 pm. 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 219.919 km (137 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.5814 West, latitude -22.9027 South, depth = 219.919 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:35:32 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ppg5. Unique identifier: us7000ppg5.

Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abra Pampa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 93 km WSW of Abra Pampa, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5814° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.9027° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 219.919 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93 km WSW 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 2025-04-02 15:35:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-02 16:03:51 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 284 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 70 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.473 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 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 us7000ppg5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ppg5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ppg5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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