Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag strikes near Ushuaia in Argentina

A earthquake magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 284 km SSE of Ushuaia, Argentina (176 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:59:14 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: at00svnbao. Ids that are associated to the event: pt25122002, at00svnbao. Exact location of earthquake, -67.3° West, -57.3° South, depth 45 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ushuaia in Argentina (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/25 / 2025-05-02 17:59:14 / May 2, 2025 @ 5:59 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 45 km (28 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 284 km SSE of Ushuaia, Argentina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.3° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-57.3° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	284 km SSE of Ushuaia, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-02 17:59:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-02 18:10:19	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	1	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	670	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.302382	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	2.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154.799987616	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00svnbao	Id of event.
Event Code	00svnbao	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt25122002,at00svnbao,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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