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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Rocafuerte in Ecuador

Posted by admin on July 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.9356S, -80.3787WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Rocafuerte in Ecuador on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/16 / 2016-07-21 11:57:49 / July 21, 2016 @ 11:57 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.77 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 24.77 km, -80.3787° West, -0.9356° South. The temblor was picked up at 06:57:49 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20006gdb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006gdb.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pedro Carbo, Vinces, Palenque. Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Velasco Ibarra (c. 48 800 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Balzar (c. 40 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km ESE of Rocafuerte, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.3787° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.9356° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ESE of Rocafuerte, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-21 11:57:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-21 12:17:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 354 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 1.607 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us20006gdb Id of event.
Event Code 20006gdb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gdb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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