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Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag has occurred near Carandayti in Bolivia

Posted by admin on April 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.6668S, -63.0156WA earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Carandayti in Bolivia. Exact location of event, longitude -63.0156 West, latitude -20.6668 South, depth = 557.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dce2. Id of event: us1000dce2. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/04/18 / 2018-04-02 13:40:34 / April 2, 2018 @ 1:40 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 557.5 km (346 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:40:34 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monteagudo, Camiri, Villamontes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Camiri (c. 28 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Villamontes (c. 18 800 pop), 137 km (85 miles) from Monteagudo (c. 8 300 pop).

There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 10 km NNE of Carandayti, Bolivia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.0156° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6668° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 557.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNE of Carandayti, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-02 13:40:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-02 13:57:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 711 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 5.309 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 18 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dce2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dce2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dce2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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