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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Guayaquil in Ecuador

Posted by admin on February 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.2387S, -79.9337WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Guayaquil in Ecuador on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.9337 West, latitude -2.2387 South, depth = 70.46 km. Id of earthquake: us20008lb1. Event ids that are associated: us20008lb1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 70.46 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:26:52 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/17 / 2017-02-19 06:26:52 / February 19, 2017 @ 6:26 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vinces, Colimes, Baláo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 5 km (3 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Naranjito (c. 34 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vinces (c. 32 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 8 km SSW of Guayaquil, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.9337° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.2387° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSW of Guayaquil, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-19 06:26:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-21 23:40:45 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 188 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 1.058 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us20008lb1 Id of event.
Event Code 20008lb1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008lb1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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