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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Abra Pampa in Argentina


Earthquake location -22.7607S, -66.3619WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Abra Pampa 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 293.85 km (183 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.3619° West, latitude -22.7607° South, depth = 293.85 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:55:59 / 6:55 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us600055ca. Unique identifier: us600055ca. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/19 / 2019-08-15 09:55:59 / August 15, 2019 @ 9:55 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abra Pampa (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3619° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.7607° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 293.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-15 09:55:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-21 13:44:54 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 259 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 1.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us600055ca Id of event.
Event Code 600055ca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600055ca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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