Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Palora in Ecuador

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Palora in Ecuador on Friday. The temblor was reported at 23:05:26 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/11/16 / 2016-11-19 04:05:26 / November 19, 2016 @ 4:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -77.9607 West, latitude -1.9019 South, depth = 163.81 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007adn. Id of event: us10007adn. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 163.81 km (102 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pelileo, Guano, Riobamba (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Pelileo (c. 16 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Guano (c. 12 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Baños (c. 9 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km S of Palora, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.9607° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.9019° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	163.81 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km S of Palora, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-19 04:05:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-18 00:37:28	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	259	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	0.921	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us10007adn	Id of event.
Event Code	10007adn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007adn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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