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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina


Earthquake location -23.7558S, -67.011WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 87 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (54 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 236.64 km (147 miles). Exact location of event, depth 236.64 km, -67.011° West, -23.7558° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 08:13:38 / December 16, 2019 @ 8:13 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us60006s37. Unique identifier: us60006s37. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:13:38 / 5:13 am (local time epicenter).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 87 km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.011° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.7558° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 236.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-16 08:13:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-17 13:58:28 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 271 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 1.338 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us60006s37 Id of event.
Event Code 60006s37 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006s37, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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