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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Abra Pampa in Argentina

Posted by admin on July 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.8295S, -66.5369WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Abra Pampa in Argentina on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -66.5369° West, -22.8295° South, depth 213.937 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 213.937 km (133 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qucj. Id of event: us6000qucj. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/07/25 / 2025-07-23 12:15:35 / July 23, 2025 @ 12:15 pm. The temblor was picked up at 12:15:35 / 12:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abra Pampa (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 87 km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5369° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.8295° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 213.937 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87 km W of Abra Pampa, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-23 12:15:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-24 05:04:07 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 298 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.519 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us6000qucj Id of event.
Event Code 6000qucj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qucj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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