A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Calingasta in Argentina. Exact location, longitude -69.5966° West, latitude -31.7178° South, depth = 123.967 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/11/25 / 2025-11-01 02:57:08 / November 1, 2025 @ 2:57 am. The temblor was detected at 02:57:08 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rkwa. Id of event: us6000rkwa. The epicenter was at a depth of 123.967 km (77 miles).
Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Calingasta (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calingasta. Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 45 km SSW of Calingasta, Argentina.
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