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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 9 km SSE of Boyuibe, Bolivia


Earthquake location -20.4974S, -63.2433WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Boyuibe in Bolivia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/05/16 / 2016-05-29 06:34:13 / May 29, 2016 @ 6:34 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -63.2433 West, latitude -20.4974 South, depth = 562.89 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005yzy. Unique identifier: us20005yzy. The epicenter was at a depth of 562.89 km (350 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:34:13 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Camiri (c. 28 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Villamontes (c. 18 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villamontes, Camiri (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km SSE of Boyuibe, Bolivia. 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 -63.2433° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.4974° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 562.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSE of Boyuibe, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-29 06:34:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-29 06:51:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us20005yzy Id of event.
Event Code 20005yzy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005yzy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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