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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina


Earthquake location -24.1327S, -66.9289WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 62 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (39 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 197.59 km (123 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 09:10:23 / June 27, 2018 @ 9:10 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000f39a. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000f39a. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:10:23 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.9289 West, latitude -24.1327 South, depth = 197.59 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 62 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9289° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.1327° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 197.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-27 09:10:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-27 09:28:17 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 298 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 1.642 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 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 us1000f39a Id of event.
Event Code 1000f39a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f39a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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