Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Duran in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Duran in Ecuador. The temblor was detected at 19:53:52 / 7:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -79.8795° West, latitude -2.3769° South, depth = 79.63 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10006rha. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006rha. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/09/16 / 2016-09-22 00:53:52 / September 22, 2016 @ 12:53 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 79.63 km (49 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Montalvo, Vinces, Babahoyo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Naranjito (c. 34 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Vinces (c. 32 500 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 three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km SSW of Duran, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.8795° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.3769° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	79.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km SSW of Duran, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-22 00:53:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-14 04:49:56	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	284	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	0.627	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	200	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	us10006rha	Id of event.
Event Code	10006rha	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006rha,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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