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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near San Agustín de Valle Fértil in Argentina


Earthquake location -31.2861S, -67.4629WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from San Agustín de Valle Fértil in Argentina. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mrf4. Unique identifier: us7000mrf4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 114.72 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -67.4629° West, -31.2861° South, depth 114.72 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:16:34 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/06/24 / 2024-06-10 04:16:34 / June 10, 2024 @ 4:16 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caucete, San Agustín de Valle Fértil (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (54 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Agustín de Valle Fértil (c. 6 900 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km S of San Agustín de Valle Fértil, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4629° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.2861° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72 km S of San Agustín de Valle Fértil, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-10 04:16:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-11 04:40:41 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 284 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.076 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us7000mrf4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mrf4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mrf4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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