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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador

Posted by admin on December 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.4845S, -80.2823WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.2823 West, latitude -0.4845 South, depth = 24.73 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/17 / 2017-12-03 11:19:06 / December 3, 2017 @ 11:19 am. Unique identifier: us1000bkjh. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bkjh. The temblor was picked up at 06:19:06 / 6:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 24.73 km (15 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colimes, Palenque, Paján (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Quevedo (c. 119 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Velasco Ibarra (c. 48 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Balzar (c. 40 100 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 19 km NE of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.2823° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.4845° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NE of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-03 11:19:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-03 11:43:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 20 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.31 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 567 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 1.732 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us1000bkjh Id of event.
Event Code 1000bkjh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bkjh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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