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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Peru-Ecuador border region


Earthquake location -2.1128S, -77.6076WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported Peru-Ecuador border region kilometers (0 miles) from Peru-Ecuador border region on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -77.6076 West, latitude -2.1128 South, depth = 118.52 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:38:35 / 2:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 118.52 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60006c0c. Event ids that are associated: us60006c0c. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/11/19 / 2019-11-15 14:38:35 / November 15, 2019 @ 2:38 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puyo, Sucúa, Palora. Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sucúa (c. 7 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Palora (c. 6 500 pop). Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Peru-Ecuador border region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.6076° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.1128° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Peru-Ecuador border region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-15 14:38:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-18 14:11:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.636 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us60006c0c Id of event.
Event Code 60006c0c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006c0c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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