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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Puerto Bolivar in Ecuador

Posted by admin on January 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.3471S, -80.0871WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Puerto Bolivar in Ecuador on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006u7d. Id of event: us70006u7d. The temblor was picked up at 09:16:42 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -80.0871 West, latitude -3.3471 South, depth = 61.34 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/01/20 / 2020-01-03 14:16:42 / January 3, 2020 @ 2:16 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.34 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Catacocha, Naranjal, Playas. Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Pasaje (c. 44 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 41 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Naranjal (c. 32 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Playas (c. 30 600 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SW of Puerto Bolivar, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.0871° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.3471° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SW of Puerto Bolivar, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-03 14:16:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-03 14:36:02 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 2.2 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 1.205 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us70006u7d Id of event.
Event Code 70006u7d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006u7d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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