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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Santa Ana in Ecuador


Earthquake location -1.1571S, -80.18WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Santa Ana in Ecuador on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.23 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -80.18° West, latitude -1.1571° South, depth = 59.23 km. Event id: us200065hd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200065hd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/06/16 / 2016-06-20 11:59:53 / June 20, 2016 @ 11:59 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:59:53 / 6:59 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Catarama, El Triunfo, Ventanas (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quevedo (c. 119 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Velasco Ibarra (c. 48 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ventanas (c. 46 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km ENE of Santa Ana, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.18° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.1571° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ENE of Santa Ana, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-20 11:59:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-04 07:58:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 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 1.352 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 133 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 us200065hd Id of event.
Event Code 200065hd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065hd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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