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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Propicia in Ecuador


Earthquake location 0.9465S, -79.7679WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Propicia in Ecuador. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:55:51 / 5:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.52 km (18 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.7679 West, latitude 0.9465 North, depth = 28.52 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/12/16 / 2016-12-13 22:55:51 / December 13, 2016 @ 10:55 pm. Id of earthquake: us10007lri. Event ids that are associated: us10007lri. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Valdez (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Valdez, Rosa Zarate, Muisne (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km W of Propicia, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.7679° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.9465° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km W of Propicia, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-13 22:55:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-11 01:30:25 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 298 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 1.365 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us10007lri Id of event.
Event Code 10007lri An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007lri, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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