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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Uyuni in Bolivia


Earthquake location -20.7721S, -67.3645WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Uyuni in Bolivia on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 194.228 km (121 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/09/24 / 2024-09-29 20:02:26 / September 29, 2024 @ 8:02 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nh55. Unique identifier: us7000nh55. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:02:26 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.3645° West, latitude -20.7721° South, depth = 194.228 km.

The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Colchani (c. 12 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Uyuni (c. 10 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colchani, Uyuni.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 66 km WSW of Uyuni, Bolivia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3645° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.7721° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 194.228 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 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 2024-09-29 20:02:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-29 20:26:42 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.791 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us7000nh55 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nh55 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nh55, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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