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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near El Hoyo in Argentina

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from El Hoyo in Argentina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/10/25 / 2025-10-02 21:37:58 / October 2, 2025 @ 9:37 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:37:58 / 9:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -63.5228 West, latitude -27.0636 South, depth = 571.146 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 571.146 km (355 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000recz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000recz.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santiago del Estero, Beltrán, Suncho Corral. Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Santiago del Estero (c. 354 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Clodomira (c. 9 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Suncho Corral (c. 6 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Campo Gallo (c. 5 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Beltrán (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km W of El Hoyo, Argentina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-63.5228° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-27.0636° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	571.146 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29 km W of El Hoyo, Argentina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-02 21:37:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-02 21:52:08	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	1.981	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	500	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.295	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us6000recz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000recz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000recz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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