Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Monteagudo in Bolivia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Monteagudo in Bolivia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:25:17 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006esd. Id of event: us20006esd. Exact location of event, longitude -63.9275 West, latitude -19.5075 South, depth = 598.59 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/07/16 / 2016-07-14 21:25:17 / July 14, 2016 @ 9:25 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 598.59 km (372 miles).

The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Camiri (c. 28 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Monteagudo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camiri, Monteagudo (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 34 km N of Monteagudo, Bolivia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-63.9275° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.5075° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	598.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km N of Monteagudo, Bolivia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-14 21:25:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-14 21:41:50	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	400	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	4.968	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	us20006esd	Id of event.
Event Code	20006esd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006esd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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