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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Pocito in Argentina


Earthquake location -31.6145S, -68.5888WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Pocito in Argentina on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/16 / 2016-12-30 15:48:24 / December 30, 2016 @ 3:48 pm. Id of earthquake: us10007ns3. Event ids that are associated: us10007ns3. The epicenter was at a depth of 106.6 km (66 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:48:24 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 106.6 km, -68.5888° West, -31.6145° South.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calingasta, Caucete, San Martín. Earthquake epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Villa Paula de Sarmiento (c. 19 100 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 five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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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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: 7 km N of Pocito, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.6145° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km N of Pocito, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-30 15:48:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-30 17:20:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 312 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 0.106 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007ns3 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ns3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ns3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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