Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on October 2, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Santiago Del Estero, Argentina, at a depth of 567 km, according to GFZ.
(Reuters) -A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the Santiago Del Estero Province in Argentina on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The quake was at a depth of 567 km (352.32 miles), GFZ said.
(Reporting by Rajveer Singh Pardesi in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese)
An earthquake is the shaking of the Earth's surface caused by a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
The magnitude scale is a logarithmic scale used to measure the size or energy released by an earthquake, with each whole number increase representing a tenfold increase in measured amplitude.
Seismic activity refers to the frequency and intensity of earthquakes in a particular area, indicating the geological stability or instability of that region.
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