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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Alausi in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Alausi in Ecuador. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/17 / 2017-09-19 12:48:28 / September 19, 2017 @ 12:48 pm. Unique identifier: us2000aqp7. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000aqp7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 112.59 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -78.7564° West, latitude -2.1725° South, depth = 112.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:48:28 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baños, Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, Cuenca (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Azogues (c. 34 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Naranjito (c. 34 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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 ENE of Alausi, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.7564° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.1725° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	112.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km ENE of Alausi, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-19 12:48:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-19 14:38:55	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	0.579	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	52	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	us2000aqp7	Id of event.
Event Code	2000aqp7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000aqp7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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