A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Uyuni in Bolivia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:24:56 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008gut. Unique identifier: us70008gut. The epicenter was at a depth of 195.09 km (121 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/03/20 / 2020-03-19 03:24:56 / March 19, 2020 @ 3:24 am. Exact location of event, depth 195.09 km, -67.2693° West, -20.9215° South.
Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Colchani (c. 12 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Uyuni (c. 10 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Colchani, Uyuni (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 68 km SW of Uyuni, Bolivia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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