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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Pedernales in Ecuador

Posted by admin on May 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.1241S, -80.3889WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Pedernales in Ecuador. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 01:19:02 / April 17, 2016 @ 1:19 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -80.3889° West, -0.1241° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005bp3. Id of event: us10005bp3. The temblor was picked up at 20:19:02 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Calceta (c. 17 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tosagua (c. 14 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Rocafuerte (c. 10 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Junín, Muisne, Rocafuerte.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-four, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km WSW of Pedernales, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.3889° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.1241° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km WSW 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 2016-04-17 01:19:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 02:54:14 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 259 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 1.971 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us10005bp3 Id of event.
Event Code 10005bp3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005bp3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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