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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 14 km WSW of Samborondon, Ecuador


Earthquake location -2.01S, -79.85WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Samborondon in Ecuador. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55 km (34 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 07:33:51 / October 28, 2016 @ 7:33 am UTC/GMT. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:33:51 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -79.85 West, latitude -2.01 South, depth = 55 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100072k7. Id of event: us100072k7.

Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ventanas (c. 46 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Balzar (c. 40 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paján, Naranjal, Ventanas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 14 km WSW of Samborondon, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.85° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.01° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WSW of Samborondon, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-28 07:33:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-30 22:01:51 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 3.8 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 200 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us100072k7 Id of event.
Event Code 100072k7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100072k7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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