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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Salta, Argentina


Earthquake location -24.0637S, -67.2112WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, Salta, Argentina (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:47:37 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). 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 207.27 km (129 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/19 / 2019-10-27 23:47:37 / October 27, 2019 @ 11:47 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2112 West, latitude -24.0637 South, depth = 207.27 km. Unique identifier: us600063sg. Ids that are associated to the event: us600063sg.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: Salta, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2112° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.0637° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 207.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Salta, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-27 23:47:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-28 00:18:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 340 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 1.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us600063sg Id of event.
Event Code 600063sg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600063sg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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