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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Ecuador


Earthquake location 1.0785S, -85.196WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported Off the coast of Ecuador (0 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000303s. Unique identifier: us1000303s. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 12:18:49 / August 7, 2015 @ 12:18 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:18:49 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -85.196 West, latitude 1.0785 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: Off the coast of Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -85.196° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.0785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Off the coast of Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-07 12:18:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-07 12:37:54 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 432 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 5.379 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000303s Id of event.
Event Code 1000303s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000303s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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