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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Totoral in Bolivia


Earthquake location -18.6557S, -67.0426WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Totoral in Bolivia. Global time and date of event 28/01/21 / 2021-01-28 08:21:02 / January 28, 2021 @ 8:21 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 08:21:02 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000dclv. Unique identifier: us6000dclv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 255.52 km (159 miles). Exact location of event, depth 255.52 km, -67.0426° West, -18.6557° South.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oruro, Llallagua, Huanuni. Country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Oruro (c. 208 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Llallagua (c. 28 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Huanuni (c. 15 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Challapata (c. 8 000 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 25 km SW of Totoral, Bolivia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0426° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.6557° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 255.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km SW of Totoral, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-28 08:21:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-28 08:39:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 2.269 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us6000dclv Id of event.
Event Code 6000dclv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dclv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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