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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Puerto Villamil in Ecuador

Posted by admin on July 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.7308S, -90.9113WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Puerto Villamil in Ecuador on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us2000gbdf. Event ids that are associated: us2000gbdf. Exact location, longitude -90.9113° West, latitude -0.7308° South, depth = 11.28 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:49:19 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/07/18 / 2018-07-22 19:49:19 / July 22, 2018 @ 7:49 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.28 km (7 miles).

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Puerto Ayora (c. 9 000 pop). Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Ayora.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km NNE of Puerto Villamil, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9113° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.7308° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NNE of Puerto Villamil, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-22 19:49:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-22 20:08:00 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 326 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 0.627 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 us2000gbdf Id of event.
Event Code 2000gbdf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gbdf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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