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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Peru-Ecuador border region

Posted by admin on March 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.0163S, -80.8987WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes Peru-Ecuador border region kilometers (0 miles) from Peru-Ecuador border region on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -80.8987 West, latitude -4.0163 South, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:37:23 / 10:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/03/17 / 2017-03-24 10:37:23 / March 24, 2017 @ 10:37 am. Event id: us20008u97. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008u97. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Verdes, Zarumilla, Talara (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Talara (c. 99 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from La Breita (c. 17 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Zarumilla (c. 16 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Zorritos (c. 12 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from El Alto (c. 9 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Peru-Ecuador border region.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.8987° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.0163° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Peru-Ecuador border region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-24 10:37:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-24 11:20:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.82 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us20008u97 Id of event.
Event Code 20008u97 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008u97, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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