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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Gualaceo in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Gualaceo in Ecuador on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000g5xq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g5xq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.79 km (55 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:35:14 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -78.5027° West, -2.964° South, depth 88.79 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 05:35:14 / July 16, 2018 @ 5:35 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Azogues (c. 34 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Gualaceo (c. 17 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Alausí (c. 14 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cañar (c. 9 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sucúa (c. 7 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alausí, Macas, Sucúa (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 31 km ESE of Gualaceo, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.5027° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.964° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	88.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km ESE of Gualaceo, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-16 05:35:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-16 06:41:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	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	313	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	2.219	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us2000g5xq	Id of event.
Event Code	2000g5xq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000g5xq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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