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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina


Earthquake location -24.0798S, -66.9253WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 63 km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (39 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.9253 West, latitude -24.0798 South, depth = 228.43 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/12/20 / 2020-12-29 14:35:07 / December 29, 2020 @ 2:35 pm. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:35:07 / 2:35 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d40h. Unique identifier: us6000d40h. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 228.43 km (142 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 63 km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9253° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.0798° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 228.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km WNW 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 2020-12-29 14:35:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-29 15:47:16 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 222 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 1.607 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000d40h Id of event.
Event Code 6000d40h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d40h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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