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

Posted by admin on December 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.5251S, -67.6441WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Caucete in Argentina. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.915 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 30/12/25 / 2025-12-30 08:10:43 / December 30, 2025 @ 8:10 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:10:43 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000rlh8. Event ids that are associated: us7000rlh8. Exact location of event, longitude -67.6441 West, latitude -31.5251 South, depth = 25.915 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pocito, Villa Paula de Sarmiento, San Juan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Albardón (c. 20 400 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 62 km ENE of Caucete, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6441° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.5251° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.915 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km ENE of Caucete, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-30 08:10:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-30 13:14:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.877 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us7000rlh8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000rlh8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rlh8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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