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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Propicia in Ecuador


Earthquake location 0.911S, -79.3852WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Propicia in Ecuador. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.82 km (28 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:19:49 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000616m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000616m. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/16 / 2016-07-06 06:19:49 / July 6, 2016 @ 6:19 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -79.3852 West, latitude 0.911 North, depth = 45.82 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muisne, San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas, Rosa Zarate. Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas (c. 20 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Valdez (c. 11 400 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 33 km E of Propicia, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.3852° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km E of Propicia, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-06 06:19:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-06 06:38:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us1000616m Id of event.
Event Code 1000616m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000616m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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