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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Mendoza in Argentina


Earthquake location -32.8696S, -69.1569WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Mendoza in Argentina on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 21:24:04 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: usa0014d0j. Id of event: usa0014d0j. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/11/16 / 2016-11-17 00:24:04 / November 17, 2016 @ 12:24 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -69.1569° West, latitude -32.8696° South, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Martín, Mendoza (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Mendoza (c. 876 900 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from San Martín (c. 82 500 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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. 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: 30 km W of Mendoza, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.1569° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.8696° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km W of Mendoza, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-17 00:24:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-17 00:42:55 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 2.2 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 234 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 1.066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 usa0014d0j Id of event.
Event Code a0014d0j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0014d0j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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