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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near La Troncal in Ecuador

Posted by admin on September 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.2883S, -79.1901WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from La Troncal in Ecuador. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us10006jh6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006jh6. Global time and date of event 01/09/16 / 2016-09-01 13:35:15 / September 1, 2016 @ 1:35 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 08:35:15 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -79.1901° West, latitude -2.2883° South, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Azogues (c. 34 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Catarama, Gualaceo, Guayaquil (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 20 km NE of La Troncal, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.1901° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.2883° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NE of La Troncal, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-01 13:35:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-01 22:15:47 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 234 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 0.851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us10006jh6 Id of event.
Event Code 10006jh6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006jh6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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