Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:31:34 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -80.5863° West, latitude -0.4151° South, depth = 10.98 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/16 / 2016-04-22 04:31:34 / April 22, 2016 @ 4:31 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005krb. Unique identifier: us20005krb. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.98 km (7 miles).

Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Montecristi (c. 18 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Calceta (c. 17 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jipijapa, Sucre, Santa Ana (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 27 km NW of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.5863° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-0.4151° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km NW 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	2016-04-22 04:31:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-22 04:50:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	385	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	2.09	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	97	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	us20005krb	Id of event.
Event Code	20005krb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005krb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-80.5863° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

-0.4151° South

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10.98 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

27km NW 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

2016-04-22 04:31:34

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-04-22 04:50:54

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

3.1

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

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

385

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

2.09

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

Root Mean Square

1.12 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

us20005krb

Id of event.

Event Code

20005krb

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

Event IDS

,us20005krb,

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

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