Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005j62. Id of event: us20005j62. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.2668 West, latitude -0.4388 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:13:58 / 2:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 07:13:58 / April 17, 2016 @ 7:13 am.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Quevedo (c. 119 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Velasco Ibarra (c. 48 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Balzar (c. 40 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quevedo, Balzar, Jipijapa. Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 24 km NE of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador.

Bahía de Caráquez Balzar Chone Ecuador Jipijapa Manta Portoviejo Quevedo Velasco Ibarra

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.2668° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-0.4388° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km NE of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-17 07:13:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-17 07:52:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.56	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	484	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	1.746	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	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	us20005j62	Id of event.
Event Code	20005j62	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005j62,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-80.2668° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

-0.4388° South

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

24km NE of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2016-04-17 07:13:58

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-04-17 07:52:20

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-300

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

2.6

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

6.56

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

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

484

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.746

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.16 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20005j62

Id of event.

Event Code

20005j62

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20005j62,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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