Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Ambato in Ecuador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ambato in Ecuador. Unique identifier: us2000d4h3. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d4h3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 125.54 km (78 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/02/18 / 2018-02-19 01:09:39 / February 19, 2018 @ 1:09 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -78.7392 West, latitude -1.3271 South, depth = 125.54 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:09:39 / 8:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Quevedo (c. 119 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Latacunga (c. 51 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ventanas (c. 46 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Machachi (c. 25 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Machachi, Quevedo, Catarama. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km WSW of Ambato, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.7392° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.3271° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	125.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km WSW of Ambato, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-19 01:09:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-05 02:41:02	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	271	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	0.21	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us2000d4h3	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d4h3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d4h3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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