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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Santo Domingo de los Colorados in Ecuador

Posted by admin on October 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.0951S, -79.2964WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Santo Domingo de los Colorados in Ecuador. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.2964 West, latitude -0.0951 South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/10/17 / 2017-10-23 09:40:57 / October 23, 2017 @ 9:40 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000aw4d. Id of event: us1000aw4d. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:40:57 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rosa Zarate, Santo Domingo de los Colorados. The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Santo Domingo de los Colorados (c. 200 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km NW of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.2964° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.0951° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NW of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, 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 09:40:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-23 21:53:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 189 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 0.802 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us1000aw4d Id of event.
Event Code 1000aw4d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000aw4d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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