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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 14 km ESE of Muisne, Ecuador

Posted by admin on April 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.56S, -79.91WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Muisne in Ecuador. Exact location of earthquake, -79.91° West, 0.56° North, depth 6 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 20/04/16 / 2016-04-20 01:48:12 / April 20, 2016 @ 1:48 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 20:48:12 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20005kcb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005kcb.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pedernales, Rosa Zarate, Esmeraldas. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Pedernales (c. 6 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 14 km ESE of Muisne, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.91° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.56° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 01:48:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-21 01:35:16 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 211 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005kcb Id of event.
Event Code 20005kcb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005kcb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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