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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Celica in Ecuador


Earthquake location -4.2356S, -80.2834WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Celica in Ecuador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 75.74 km, -80.2834° West, -4.2356° South. Global time and date of event 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:21:01 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:21 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 75.74 km (47 miles). Unique identifier: us70004a2l. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004a2l. The temblor was picked up at 13:21:01 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Sullana (c. 160 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Chulucanas (c. 68 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 41 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tambo Grande (c. 30 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Marcavelica (c. 25 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chulucanas, Zaruma, Santa Rosa. Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 four 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 39 km WSW of Celica, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.2834° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.2356° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km WSW of Celica, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-04 18:21:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 00:04:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 370 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 2.034 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 145 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 us70004a2l Id of event.
Event Code 70004a2l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004a2l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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