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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 0 km ENE of Muisne, Ecuador


Earthquake location 0.603S, -80.0272WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Muisne in Ecuador. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:05:48 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -80.0272° West, 0.603° North, depth 21.1 km. Unique identifier: us10005ief. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005ief. Global time and date of event 19/05/16 / 2016-05-19 07:05:48 / May 19, 2016 @ 7:05 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.1 km (13 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Pedernales (c. 6 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rosa Zarate, Pedernales, Esmeraldas. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 0 km ENE of Muisne, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.0272° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.603° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km ENE 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 2016-05-19 07:05:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-19 07:41:55 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 326 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 1.617 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us10005ief Id of event.
Event Code 10005ief An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ief, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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