Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Palora in Ecuador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Palora in Ecuador. Exact location of event, depth 172.85 km, -77.6321° West, -1.5291° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/16 / 2016-02-04 06:19:15 / February 4, 2016 @ 6:19 am. The temblor was detected at 01:19:15 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 172.85 km (107 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20004yz3. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004yz3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baños, Archidona, Tena. The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Baños (c. 9 500 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Archidona (c. 7 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Palora (c. 6 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km ENE of Palora, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.6321° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.5291° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	172.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km ENE of Palora, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-04 06:19:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-02 12:24:05	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	271	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	1.936	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155	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	us20004yz3	Id of event.
Event Code	20004yz3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004yz3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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