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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Duran in Ecuador

Posted by admin on February 22, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.2982S, -79.733WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Duran in Ecuador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:40:41 / 5:40 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/02/19 / 2019-02-22 10:40:41 / February 22, 2019 @ 10:40 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 82.13 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jlh2. Unique identifier: us2000jlh2. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.733 West, latitude -2.2982 South, depth = 82.13 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (14 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Ventanas (c. 46 700 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Balzar (c. 40 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Bolívar, Azogues, Machala (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 15 km SE of Duran, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.733° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.2982° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SE of Duran, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-22 10:40:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-22 10:58:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.12 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 467 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 0.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us2000jlh2 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jlh2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jlh2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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