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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador

Posted by admin on July 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.3772S, -80.6781WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador. Exact location of event, longitude -80.6781 West, latitude -0.3772 South, depth = 35.41 km. The temblor was detected at 02:03:53 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/16 / 2016-07-08 07:03:53 / July 8, 2016 @ 7:03 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us100061u5. Unique identifier: us100061u5. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.41 km (22 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Montecristi (c. 18 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Calceta (c. 17 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tosagua (c. 14 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pedernales, Junín, Portoviejo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 38 km NW of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.6781° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.3772° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NW of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-08 07:03:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-08 07:20:53 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 2.121 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us100061u5 Id of event.
Event Code 100061u5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100061u5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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