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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Colchani in Bolivia

Posted by admin on October 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.6821S, -67.2075WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Colchani in Bolivia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:04:18 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 265.39 km (165 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.2075° West, -19.6821° South, depth 265.39 km. Unique identifier: us10006ulf. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006ulf. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/10/16 / 2016-10-03 04:04:18 / October 3, 2016 @ 4:04 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colchani (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Colchani (c. 12 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km NNW of Colchani, Bolivia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2075° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.6821° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 265.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km NNW 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 2016-10-03 04:04:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-23 22:55:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 246 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 1.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us10006ulf Id of event.
Event Code 10006ulf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ulf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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