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Light earthquake 4 mag, 16 km NNW of Santa Rosa del Conlara, Argentina

Posted by admin on August 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.1982S, -65.2481WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Santa Rosa del Conlara in Argentina. The temblor was detected at 23:30:19 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us600053v5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600053v5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.2481 West, latitude -32.1982 South, depth = 13.77 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.77 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/08/19 / 2019-08-12 02:30:19 / August 12, 2019 @ 2:30 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Berrotarán, Embalse, Villa General Belgrano. Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Villa Dolores (c. 28 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Embalse (c. 15 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Merlo (c. 11 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Rosa de Calamuchita (c. 9 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mina Clavero (c. 6 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Berrotarán (c. 6 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km NNW of Santa Rosa del Conlara, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2481° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.1982° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NNW of Santa Rosa del Conlara, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-12 02:30:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-12 03:05:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 246 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 2.994 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600053v5 Id of event.
Event Code 600053v5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600053v5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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