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Light mag. 4.6 earthquake - 79 km west of San Antonio de los Cobres, Departamento de Los Andes, Salta, Argentina, on Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 06:25 GMT

Light magnitude 4.6 earthquake at 173 km depth

15 Aug 06:29 UTC: First to report: GFZ after 4 minutes.
Aug 15 06:34: Magnitude recalculated from 4.4 to 4.6.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 188.0 to 173.0 km.

Earthquake details

Date & time	Aug 15, 2019 06:25:53 UTC
Local time at epicenter
Status	Confirmed
Magnitude	4.6
Depth	173.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude	24.22°S / 67.1°W (Departamento de Los Andes, Salta, Argentina)
Antipode	24.22°N / 112.9°E
Shaking intensity	Very weak shaking
Felt	0 reports
Primary data source	GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
Nearest volcano	Aracar (57 km / 35 mi)
Nearby towns and cities	79 km (49 mi) W of San Antonio de los Cobres (pop: 4,000) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 182 km (113 mi) WNW of Salta (pop: 512,700) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 183 km (114 mi) W of Jujuy (pop: 305,900) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 192 km (119 mi) W of Palpala (Jujuy) (pop: 48,200) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 227 km (141 mi) W of San Pedro de Jujuy (pop: 58,400) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 239 km (149 mi) WSW of Libertador General San Martin (Jujuy) (pop: 49,300) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 270 km (168 mi) SE of Calama (Antofagasta, Chile) (pop: 143,100) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 307 km (191 mi) WSW of Oran (pop: 74,100) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 346 km (215 mi) NW of San Miguel de Tucuman (Tucumán) (pop: 781,000) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 386 km (240 mi) WSW of Tartagal (pop: 60,800) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby
Weather at epicenter at time of quake
Estimated seismic energy released	5 x 10¹¹ joules (139 megawatt hours, equivalent to 120 tons of TNT) \| about seismic energy

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Mag.	Depth	Location	Source
4.6	173 km	Chile-Argentina Border Region	GFZ
4.9	168 km	Salta, Argentina	EMSC
4.9	163 km	Chile-Argentina Border Region	USP
4.9	163 km	78km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina	USGS
4.9	201 km	83 km al SE de Socaire (Argentina)	GUG (U. Chile)

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Seismic station: Mina Guanaco, Chile (GO02/C network) | Distance from quake: 273 km / 169 mi | Show on map | Station Info

Seismic station Mina Guanaco, Chile: vertical movement plot around time of quake (source: IRIS/BUD)

Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive some time later, depending on distance. Bandpass filter applied: 0.2-10.0 Hz. Source: IRIS Buffer of Uniform Data (BUD) webtool

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