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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 10 km NNW of Pasaje, Ecuador


Earthquake location -3.2401S, -79.8446WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pasaje in Ecuador. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.98 km (34 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 54.98 km, -79.8446° West, -3.2401° South. Event id: us2000673h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000673h. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:15:45 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/06/16 / 2016-06-27 04:15:45 / June 27, 2016 @ 4:15 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Catacocha, Playas, Tumbes. Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Pasaje (c. 44 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 41 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Naranjal (c. 32 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 10 km NNW of Pasaje, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.8446° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.2401° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNW of Pasaje, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-27 04:15:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-28 00:06:09 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 2.2 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 285 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 0.967 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us2000673h Id of event.
Event Code 2000673h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000673h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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