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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Pedernales in Ecuador

Posted by admin on May 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.1915S, -80.255WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Pedernales in Ecuador. The temblor was reported at 08:36:12 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -80.255° West, 0.1915° North, depth 44.63 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10005dda. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005dda. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.63 km (28 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/04/16 / 2016-04-22 13:36:12 / April 22, 2016 @ 1:36 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Pedernales (c. 6 000 pop). Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bahía de Caráquez, Rosa Zarate, Muisne (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 25 km WNW of Pedernales, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.255° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.1915° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km WNW of Pedernales, 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 13:36:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-08 07:37:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 298 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 1.76 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us10005dda Id of event.
Event Code 10005dda An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005dda, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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