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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 99 km SW of Uyuni, Bolivia


Earthquake location -21.1387S, -67.4501WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Uyuni in Bolivia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 183.44 km (114 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000dc6t. Event ids that are associated: us1000dc6t. Exact location of event, depth 183.44 km, -67.4501° West, -21.1387° South. Global time and date of event 01/04/18 / 2018-04-01 21:01:17 / April 1, 2018 @ 9:01 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:01:17 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop). The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Uyuni (c. 10 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Uyuni (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 99 km SW of Uyuni, Bolivia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4501° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.1387° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 183.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km SW 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 2018-04-01 21:01:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-01 21:19:34 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 354 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 1.792 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us1000dc6t Id of event.
Event Code 1000dc6t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dc6t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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