Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Muisne in Ecuador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Muisne in Ecuador. Global time and date of event 20/04/16 / 2016-04-20 21:30:06 / April 20, 2016 @ 9:30 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.77 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:30:06 / 4:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -79.9414° West, 0.5639° North, depth 25.77 km. Id of earthquake: us20005kab. Event ids that are associated: us20005kab. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rosa Zarate, Pedernales, Esmeraldas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Pedernales (c. 6 000 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 four, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 10 km ESE of Muisne, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.9414° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.5639° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km ESE of Muisne, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-20 21:30:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-20 21:53:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	370	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	1.536	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us20005kab	Id of event.
Event Code	20005kab	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005kab,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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