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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Mina Clavero in Argentina


Earthquake location -31.704S, -64.935WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mina Clavero in Argentina. The temblor was reported at 22:25:11 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, depth 24 km, -64.935° West, -31.704° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006hat. Id of event: us20006hat. Global time and date of event 22/07/16 / 2016-07-22 01:25:11 / July 22, 2016 @ 1:25 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Almafuerte, Río Ceballos, Huerta Grande. The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Córdoba (c. 1 428 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Villa Carlos Paz (c. 69 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Alta Gracia (c. 40 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Villa Dolores (c. 28 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from La Calera (c. 24 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Villa Allende (c. 21 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 7 km ENE of Mina Clavero, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.935° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.704° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ENE of Mina Clavero, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-22 01:25:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-24 21:31:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 200 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20006hat Id of event.
Event Code 20006hat An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hat, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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