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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near San José de Jáchal in Argentina


Earthquake location -30.3532S, -69.1484WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from San José de Jáchal in Argentina on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -69.1484 West, latitude -30.3532 South, depth = 112.997 km. The temblor was detected at 20:35:29 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 04/10/25 / 2025-10-04 20:35:29 / October 4, 2025 @ 8:35 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000reuf. Id of event: us6000reuf. The epicenter was at a depth of 112.997 km (70 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San José de Jáchal. Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from San José de Jáchal (c. 21 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 40 km WSW of San José de Jáchal, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.1484° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.3532° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.997 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km WSW of San José de Jáchal, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-04 20:35:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-01 05:04:01 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 284 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us6000reuf Id of event.
Event Code 6000reuf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000reuf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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