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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near General Enrique Mosconi in Argentina


Earthquake location -22.816S, -63.7967WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from General Enrique Mosconi in Argentina. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005dex. Id of event: us20005dex. The temblor was picked up at 18:49:15 / 6:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 527.4 km (328 miles). Global time and date of event 24/03/16 / 2016-03-24 21:49:15 / March 24, 2016 @ 9:49 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -63.7967° West, latitude -22.816° South, depth = 527.4 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop), Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yacuiba, San Ramón de la Nueva Orán, Embarcación. Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Yacuiba (c. 82 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (c. 74 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Tartagal (c. 60 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Embarcación (c. 24 000 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from General Enrique Mosconi (c. 19 800 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km S of General Enrique Mosconi, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.7967° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.816° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 527.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km S of General Enrique Mosconi, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-24 21:49:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-02 03:51:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 259 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.726 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us20005dex Id of event.
Event Code 20005dex An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dex, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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