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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Uyuni in Bolivia


Earthquake location -20.8471S, -67.4424WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Uyuni in Bolivia on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/24 / 2024-09-27 05:56:45 / September 27, 2024 @ 5:56 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 181.095 km (113 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:56:45 / 5:56 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000ngra. Event ids that are associated: us7000ngra. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.4424 West, latitude -20.8471 South, depth = 181.095 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Colchani, Uyuni (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Colchani (c. 12 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Uyuni (c. 10 300 pop).

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

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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: 77 km WSW of Uyuni, Bolivia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4424° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.8471° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 181.095 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km WSW of Uyuni, Bolivia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-27 05:56:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-27 06:52:16 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 284 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.751 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us7000ngra Id of event.
Event Code 7000ngra An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ngra, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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