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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 81 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina


Earthquake location -24.3224S, -67.1177WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 81 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (50 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.1177° West, latitude -24.3224° South, depth = 154.22 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 154.22 km (96 miles). The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:37:16 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009ehh. Id of event: us60009ehh. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 05:37:16 / April 29, 2020 @ 5:37 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 81 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1177° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.3224° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 154.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km W 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 2020-04-29 05:37:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-29 05:54:07 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 3.316 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 1.675 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 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 us60009ehh Id of event.
Event Code 60009ehh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009ehh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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