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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina

Posted by admin on December 4, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.8719S, -66.5619WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 45 km NNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (28 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/12/20 / 2020-12-04 04:06:18 / December 4, 2020 @ 4:06 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000cmu1. Event ids that are associated: us7000cmu1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.5619 West, latitude -23.8719 South, depth = 198.51 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:06:18 / 4:06 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 198.51 km (123 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 45 km NNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5619° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.8719° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 198.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45 km NNW 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 2020-12-04 04:06:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-04 04:23:31 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 400 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 1.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us7000cmu1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cmu1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cmu1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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