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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina

Posted by admin on July 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.0679S, -66.7174WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 43 km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina (27 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qd7b. Unique identifier: us7000qd7b. The temblor was picked up at 13:02:33 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.7174° West, -24.0679° South, depth 198.485 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 198.485 km (123 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/25 / 2025-07-17 13:02:33 / July 17, 2025 @ 1:02 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7174° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.0679° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 198.485 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 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 2025-07-17 13:02:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-18 13:21:46 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 312 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.742 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us7000qd7b Id of event.
Event Code 7000qd7b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qd7b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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