A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from San Jose de Jachal in Argentina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 17:16:57 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -69.3664° West, latitude -30.1423° South, depth = 128.74 km. Global time and date of event 29/10/19 / 2019-10-29 20:16:57 / October 29, 2019 @ 8:16 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600064it. Id of event: us600064it. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.74 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San José de Jáchal (c. 21 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San José de Jáchal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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