Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Monteagudo in Bolivia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Monteagudo in Bolivia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -63.9243 West, latitude -19.7048 South, depth = 564.84 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600056jg. Id of event: us600056jg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 564.84 km (351 miles). The temblor was detected at 21:50:20 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/08/19 / 2019-08-18 01:50:20 / August 18, 2019 @ 1:50 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camiri, Monteagudo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Camiri (c. 28 000 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Monteagudo (c. 8 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 13 km NNE of Monteagudo, Bolivia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-63.9243° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.7048° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	564.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km NNE of Monteagudo, Bolivia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-18 01:50:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-18 02:10:33	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	326	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	4.938	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	24	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	us600056jg	Id of event.
Event Code	600056jg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600056jg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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