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Strong earthquake: M6.4 quake has struck near Ushuaia in Argentina

Posted by admin on May 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -57.3028S, -67.075WA earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) strikes 288 km SSE of Ushuaia, Argentina (179 miles) on Friday. Event id: us7000pwpu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00svnbao, pt25122002, at00svnbaq, us7000pwpu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -67.075° West, -57.3028° South. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/25 / 2025-05-02 17:59:08 / May 2, 2025 @ 5:59 pm UTC/GMT. The 6.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:59:08 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Ushuaia in Argentina (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. 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: 288 km SSE of Ushuaia, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.075° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -57.3028° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 288 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 17:59:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-02 18:23:58 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 4.087 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 630 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 ,at,pt,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 220 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.96 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us7000pwpu Id of event.
Event Code 7000pwpu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00svnbao,pt25122002,at00svnbaq,us7000pwpu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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