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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Caimancito in Argentina

Posted by admin on December 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.534S, -64.7011WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Caimancito in Argentina. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.16 km (13 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -64.7011° West, latitude -23.534° South, depth = 20.16 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 22:33:06 / November 26, 2015 @ 10:33 pm. Event id: us100041l8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100041l8. The temblor was reported at 19:33:06 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palpalá, San Salvador de Jujuy, San Pedro. Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from San Salvador de Jujuy (c. 305 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (c. 74 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Pedro (c. 58 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Libertador General San Martín (c. 49 300 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Palpalá (c. 48 200 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Embarcación (c. 24 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Fraile Pintado (c. 13 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km NNW of Caimancito, Argentina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7011° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.534° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NNW of Caimancito, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-26 22:33:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-12 04:26:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 369 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 3.983 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 47 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 us100041l8 Id of event.
Event Code 100041l8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041l8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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