Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Albardon in Argentina


Earthquake location -31.2511S, -68.6048WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Albardon in Argentina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 106.87 km (66 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:59:35 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000edk8. Id of event: us1000edk8. Global time and date of event 28/05/18 / 2018-05-28 20:59:35 / May 28, 2018 @ 8:59 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -68.6048 West, latitude -31.2511 South, depth = 106.87 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calingasta, Caucete, Nueve de Julio. Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Villa Paula de Sarmiento (c. 19 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

Did you feel anything?

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: 21 km NNW of Albardon, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6048° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.2511° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NNW of Albardon, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-28 20:59:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-28 21:17:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 385 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 0.301 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000edk8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000edk8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000edk8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply