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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Uyuni in Bolivia


Earthquake location -21.354S, -67.4449WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 118 km SSW of Uyuni, Bolivia (73 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 02:48:12 / 2:48 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 194.63 km (121 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.4449 West, latitude -21.354 South, depth = 194.63 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/01/17 / 2017-01-22 06:48:12 / January 22, 2017 @ 6:48 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007ush. Id of event: us10007ush.

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 three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 118 km SSW of Uyuni, Bolivia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4449° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.354° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 194.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km SSW of Uyuni, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-22 06:48:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-22 07:09:24 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 284 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 1.729 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us10007ush Id of event.
Event Code 10007ush An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ush, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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