Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Charagua in Bolivia

A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Charagua in Bolivia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004ebw. Id of event: us10004ebw. 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: 14/01/16 / 2016-01-14 03:25:27 / January 14, 2016 @ 3:25 am. The temblor was reported at 23:25:27 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 580.11 km (360 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -63.3315° West, -19.8045° South, depth 580.11 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monteagudo, Camiri (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Camiri (c. 28 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Monteagudo (c. 8 300 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km W of Charagua, Bolivia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-63.3315° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.8045° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	580.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km W of Charagua, Bolivia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-14 03:25:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-14 03:45:33	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	2.14	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	554	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	5.486	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	18	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	us10004ebw	Id of event.
Event Code	10004ebw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004ebw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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