A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Puerto Villamil in Ecuador on Sunday. Unique identifier: us2000g9sj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000g9sj. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 01:51:26 / July 16, 2018 @ 1:51 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.8976 West, latitude -0.7525 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:51:26 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter). 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 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Ayora. Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Puerto Ayora (c. 9 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km NNE of Puerto Villamil, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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