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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 70 km WNW of El Aguilar, Argentina


Earthquake location -23.0064S, -66.3414WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from El Aguilar in Argentina on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -66.3414° West, latitude -23.0064° South, depth = 227.36 km. The temblor was reported at 16:28:47 / 4:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 227.36 km (141 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/17 / 2017-08-20 19:28:47 / August 20, 2017 @ 7:28 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a9z4. Id of event: us2000a9z4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abra Pampa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (46 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 five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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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. 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: 70 km WNW of El Aguilar, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3414° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.0064° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 227.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km WNW of El Aguilar, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-20 19:28:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-20 19:56:26 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.694 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us2000a9z4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a9z4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a9z4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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