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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Colchani in Bolivia


Earthquake location -19.7397S, -66.8245WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Colchani in Bolivia on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 246.43 km (153 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:10:52 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10005c40. Event ids that are associated: us10005c40. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8245 West, latitude -19.7397 South, depth = 246.43 km. 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: 28/04/16 / 2016-04-28 07:10:52 / April 28, 2016 @ 7:10 am.

Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Colchani (c. 12 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Uyuni (c. 10 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Challapata (c. 8 000 pop). Close country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Challapata, Uyuni, Colchani (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km N of Colchani, Bolivia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.7397° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 246.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km N of Colchani, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-28 07:10:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-28 07:33:23 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 312 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 2.227 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us10005c40 Id of event.
Event Code 10005c40 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005c40, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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