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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Palora in Ecuador

Posted by admin on October 7, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.6647S, -77.9778WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Palora in Ecuador on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -77.9778 West, latitude -1.6647 South, depth = 147.34 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:26:14 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/17 / 2017-10-07 09:26:14 / October 7, 2017 @ 9:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 147.34 km (92 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000b2fc. Id of event: us2000b2fc.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Miguel de Salcedo, Sucúa, Archidona (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Pelileo (c. 16 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guano (c. 12 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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. 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: 6 km NW of Palora, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.9778° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.6647° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NW 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 2017-10-07 09:26:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-07 09:47:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 401 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 0.907 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000b2fc Id of event.
Event Code 2000b2fc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b2fc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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