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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Challapata in Bolivia


Earthquake location -19.1716S, -67.4973WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Challapata in Bolivia. The temblor was reported at 14:12:51 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000dz16. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dz16. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/18 / 2018-04-12 18:12:51 / April 12, 2018 @ 6:12 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -67.4973 West, latitude -19.1716 South, depth = 246.57 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 246.57 km (153 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Challapata (c. 8 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Challapata.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 82 km WSW of Challapata, Bolivia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.1716° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 246.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WSW of Challapata, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-12 18:12:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-12 20:58:42 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 1.676 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us2000dz16 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dz16 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dz16, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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