A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Banos in Ecuador. Exact location, longitude -78.3697° West, latitude -1.392° South, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000heem. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000heem. Global time and date of event 13/09/18 / 2018-09-13 08:20:50 / September 13, 2018 @ 8:20 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:20:50 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tena, Guaranda, Pujilí (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Latacunga (c. 51 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaranda (c. 22 200 pop).
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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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: 5 km E of Banos, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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