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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near El Hoyo in Argentina


Earthquake location -27.0186S, -63.3931WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from El Hoyo in Argentina. Exact location of event, longitude -63.3931 West, latitude -27.0186 South, depth = 560.43 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:11:29 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 21:11:29 / January 23, 2020 @ 9:11 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007e4x. Id of event: us60007e4x. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 560.43 km (348 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 96 km (59 miles) from Clodomira (c. 9 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Suncho Corral (c. 6 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Campo Gallo (c. 5 500 pop), 112 km (69 miles) from Beltrán (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Beltrán, Suncho Corral, Clodomira (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 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. 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 W of El Hoyo, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.3931° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.0186° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 560.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W of El Hoyo, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-23 21:11:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 21:30:52 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 465 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 5.123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007e4x Id of event.
Event Code 60007e4x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007e4x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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