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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Balao in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Balao in Ecuador on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 11:29:25 / July 4, 2015 @ 11:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10002ne2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002ne2. Exact location of event, longitude -79.5992 West, latitude -3.0707 South, depth = 71.99 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.99 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:29:25 / 6:29 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Pasaje (c. 44 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 41 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gualaceo, Cañar, Azogues (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 29 km SE of Balao, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.5992° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.0707° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	71.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km SE of Balao, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-04 11:29:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-04 11:57:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	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	3.48	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	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	us10002ne2	Id of event.
Event Code	10002ne2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002ne2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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