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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 19 km SSW of Uyuni, Bolivia


Earthquake location -20.6147S, -66.9159WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Uyuni in Bolivia. Unique identifier: us20009n8u. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009n8u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -66.9159° West, -20.6147° South, depth 251.04 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 251.04 km (156 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:56:35 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/06/17 / 2017-06-17 05:56:35 / June 17, 2017 @ 5:56 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Colchani (c. 12 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Uyuni (c. 10 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Colchani, Uyuni. Close 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 19 km SSW of Uyuni, Bolivia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9159° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6147° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 251.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSW of Uyuni, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-17 05:56:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-17 07:21:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 2.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us20009n8u Id of event.
Event Code 20009n8u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009n8u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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