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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 35 km E of Padilla, Bolivia


Earthquake location -19.3315S, -63.9631WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Padilla in Bolivia on Thursday. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:52:56 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 08:52:56 / December 20, 2018 @ 8:52 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.5 km (12 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ivae. Id of event: us2000ivae. Exact location of event, depth 19.5 km, -63.9631° West, -19.3315° South.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallegrande, Camiri, Monteagudo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Camiri (c. 28 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Vallegrande (c. 8 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Monteagudo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 35 km E of Padilla, Bolivia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.9631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.3315° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km E of Padilla, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-20 08:52:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-20 09:16:43 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 4.945 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us2000ivae Id of event.
Event Code 2000ivae An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ivae, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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