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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Carandayti in Bolivia


Earthquake location -20.6569S, -63.2343WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Carandayti in Bolivia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dxl4. Id of event: us2000dxl4. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 569.35 km (354 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:49:02 / 9:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -63.2343° West, latitude -20.6569° South, depth = 569.35 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/04/18 / 2018-04-02 13:49:02 / April 2, 2018 @ 1:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camiri, Villamontes (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Camiri (c. 28 000 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Villamontes (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 20 km WNW of Carandayti, Bolivia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.2343° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6569° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 569.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km WNW 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 13:49:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-10 18:44:36 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 385 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 5.074 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us2000dxl4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dxl4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dxl4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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