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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near El Aguilar in Argentina


Earthquake location -23.2776S, -66.2501WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from El Aguilar in Argentina. 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 216.37 km (134 miles). Global time and date of event 29/05/20 / 2020-05-29 10:10:32 / May 29, 2020 @ 10:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 216.37 km, -66.2501° West, -23.2776° South. Unique identifier: us6000a1m5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000a1m5. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:10:32 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Humahuaca (c. 11 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tilcara (c. 5 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tilcara, Humahuaca, Abra Pampa (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 58 km W of El Aguilar, Argentina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2501° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.2776° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 216.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km W of El Aguilar, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-29 10:10:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-29 10:39:03 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 354 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 1.805 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us6000a1m5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000a1m5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a1m5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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