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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Balao in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Balao in Ecuador on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/07/18 / 2018-07-09 18:14:15 / July 9, 2018 @ 6:14 pm. Exact location, longitude -79.8172° West, latitude -2.761° South, depth = 47.45 km. Event id: us2000g0kb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g0kb. The epicenter was at a depth of 47.45 km (29 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:14:15 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Pasaje (c. 44 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 41 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zarumilla, El Triunfo, Aguas Verdes.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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 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: 17 km N of Balao, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.8172° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.761° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km N of Balao, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-09 18:14:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-09 20:38:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	10	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.5	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	330	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	0.82	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93	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	us2000g0kb	Id of event.
Event Code	2000g0kb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000g0kb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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