Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Sorata in Bolivia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Sorata in Bolivia on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.7789 West, latitude -15.7389 South, depth = 175.72 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 175.72 km (109 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/03/16 / 2016-03-17 23:38:16 / March 17, 2016 @ 11:38 pm. Unique identifier: us20005bhr. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005bhr. The temblor was detected at 19:38:16 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Yunguyo (c. 16 100 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Achacachi (c. 8 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Putina (c. 8 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Juli (c. 7 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from San Pedro (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juli, Putina, Yunguyo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7789° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.7389° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	175.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km W of Sorata, Bolivia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-17 23:38:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-27 01:37:50	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	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.828	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us20005bhr	Id of event.
Event Code	20005bhr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005bhr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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