Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Coronel Marcelino Mariduena in Ecuador

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Coronel Marcelino Mariduena in Ecuador. Unique identifier: us2000j0t0. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j0t0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -79.2408° West, latitude -2.1685° South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 06/01/19 / 2019-01-06 11:19:34 / January 6, 2019 @ 11:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 06:19:34 / 6:19 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guano, Vinces, Riobamba. Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ventanas (c. 46 700 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 eleven 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 quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 19 km E of Coronel Marcelino Mariduena, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.2408° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.1685° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km E of Coronel Marcelino Mariduena, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-06 11:19:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-27 14:00:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	284	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	0.296	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129	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	us2000j0t0	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j0t0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j0t0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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