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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 18 km NE of Quito, Ecuador

Posted by admin on December 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.1289S, -78.3959WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Quito in Ecuador. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006nvf. Id of event: us60006nvf. Exact location of event, longitude -78.3959 West, latitude -0.1289 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/19 / 2019-12-08 08:56:10 / December 8, 2019 @ 8:56 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:56:10 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Latacunga, Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Pimampiro. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Quito (c. 1 399 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Santo Domingo de los Colorados (c. 200 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ibarra (c. 133 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Latacunga (c. 51 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Otavalo (c. 32 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Cayambe (c. 26 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Machachi (c. 25 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 18 km NE of Quito, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.3959° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.1289° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NE of Quito, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-08 08:56:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-08 09:19:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 313 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 0.605 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 117 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 us60006nvf Id of event.
Event Code 60006nvf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006nvf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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