A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Palora in Ecuador. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/09/18 / 2018-09-20 22:45:19 / September 20, 2018 @ 10:45 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:45:19 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000h3aw. Event ids that are associated: us1000h3aw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 155.44 km (97 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -77.1672 West, latitude -1.896 South, depth = 155.44 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palora (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Palora (c. 6 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 87 km ESE of Palora, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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