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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Calingasta in Argentina


Earthquake location -31.4409S, -70.1344WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Calingasta in Argentina. The epicenter was at a depth of 116.13 km (72 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -70.1344 West, latitude -31.4409 South, depth = 116.13 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jd17. Id of event: us1000jd17. The temblor was picked up at 17:45:43 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/03/19 / 2019-03-09 20:45:43 / March 9, 2019 @ 8:45 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel, Salamanca, Calingasta (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 100 km (62 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Calingasta (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop), Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 70 km W of Calingasta, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1344° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.4409° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km W of Calingasta, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-09 20:45:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-09 21:18:07 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 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 355 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 0.765 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us1000jd17 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jd17 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jd17, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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