Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Challapata in Bolivia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Challapata in Bolivia. Unique identifier: us6000npu5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000npu5. Global time and date of event 05/09/24 / 2024-09-05 10:38:26 / September 5, 2024 @ 10:38 am UTC/GMT. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:38:26 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.3038 West, latitude -19.1251 South, depth = 222.966 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 222.966 km (139 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Llallagua, Huanuni, Challapata (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 109 km (68 miles) from Llallagua (c. 28 100 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Huanuni (c. 15 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Challapata (c. 8 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km WSW of Challapata, Bolivia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.3038° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.1251° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	222.966 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61 km WSW of Challapata, Bolivia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-05 10:38:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-05 10:58:59	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	3.434	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	500	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.015	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000npu5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000npu5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000npu5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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