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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Puyo in Ecuador


Earthquake location -1.3537S, -77.6325WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Puyo in Ecuador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:08:20 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/10/17 / 2017-10-23 17:08:20 / October 23, 2017 @ 5:08 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000avz6. Event ids that are associated: us1000avz6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 189.91 km (118 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -77.6325° West, -1.3537° South, depth 189.91 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Boca Suno (c. 20 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Baños (c. 9 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Archidona (c. 7 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Palora (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Boca Suno, Baños, Palora (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 40 km ENE of Puyo, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.6325° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.3537° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 189.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km ENE of Puyo, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-23 17:08:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-23 17:52:09 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 1.063 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us1000avz6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000avz6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000avz6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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