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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Puerto Ayora in Ecuador


Earthquake location 1.613S, -90.7552WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 263 km N of Puerto Ayora, Ecuador (163 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 20.69 km, -90.7552° West, 1.613° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/15 / 2015-06-07 22:48:49 / June 7, 2015 @ 10:48 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002mu8. Id of event: us20002mu8. The temblor was detected at 16:48:49 / 4:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.69 km (13 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 263 km N of Puerto Ayora, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.7552° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.613° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 263km N of Puerto Ayora, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-07 22:48:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-01 00:33:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 340 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 2.319 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us20002mu8 Id of event.
Event Code 20002mu8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002mu8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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