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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Villamontes in Bolivia


Earthquake location -21.6801S, -63.1941WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Villamontes in Bolivia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/02/19 / 2019-02-23 16:34:11 / February 23, 2019 @ 4:34 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -63.1941 West, latitude -21.6801 South, depth = 22.89 km. The temblor was detected at 12:34:11 / 12:34 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.89 km (14 miles). 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: us2000jm2k. Id of event: us2000jm2k.

Close country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yacuiba, Villamontes. The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Yacuiba (c. 82 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Villamontes (c. 18 800 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 57 km SSE of Villamontes, Bolivia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.1941° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.6801° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km SSE of Villamontes, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-23 16:34:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-23 16:53:01 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 369 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 4.785 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us2000jm2k Id of event.
Event Code 2000jm2k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jm2k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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