Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Poopó in Bolivia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Poopó in Bolivia. Exact location, longitude -67.0477° West, latitude -18.3774° South, depth = 270.999 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:01:49 / 3:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 270.999 km (168 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000rgzb. Event ids that are associated: us6000rgzb. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/10/25 / 2025-10-14 03:01:49 / October 14, 2025 @ 3:01 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Challapata, Llallagua, Oruro (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Oruro (c. 208 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Llallagua (c. 28 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Huanuni (c. 15 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Challapata (c. 8 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km W of Poopó, Bolivia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0477° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.3774° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	270.999 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km W of Poopó, Bolivia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-14 03:01:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-14 03:15:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	271	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.321	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	us6000rgzb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rgzb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rgzb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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