Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Pedernales in Ecuador

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Pedernales in Ecuador. Event id: us10005ii9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005ii9. Exact location, longitude -80.0495° West, latitude 0.029° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:04:47 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 23:04:47 / May 11, 2016 @ 11:04 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tosagua, Bahía de Caráquez, Chone (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tosagua (c. 14 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Pedernales (c. 6 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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: 6 km S of Pedernales, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.0495° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.029° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km S 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	2016-05-11 23:04:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-31 23:18:06	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	271	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	1.612	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	215	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	us10005ii9	Id of event.
Event Code	10005ii9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005ii9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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