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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Puerto Ayora in Ecuador

Posted by admin on April 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.4475S, -90.0274WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 244 km N of Puerto Ayora, Ecuador (152 miles). Exact location, longitude -90.0274° West, latitude 1.4475° North, depth = 10 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:20:51 / 6:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/04/18 / 2018-04-07 12:20:51 / April 7, 2018 @ 12:20 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000dzp4. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dzp4.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.0274° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 244km N of Puerto Ayora, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-07 12:20:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-14 12:26:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 400 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 2.123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us2000dzp4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dzp4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dzp4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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