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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas in Ecuador

Posted by admin on March 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.1944S, -78.5939WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas in Ecuador. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -78.5939 West, latitude 1.1944 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us60008gaz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008gaz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/03/20 / 2020-03-16 03:53:24 / March 16, 2020 @ 3:53 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:53:24 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Francisco Pizarro, Cumbal, Barbacoas (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (44 miles) from Tumaco (c. 86 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas (c. 20 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Valdez (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Barbacoas (c. 7 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Cumbal (c. 7 500 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Francisco Pizarro (c. 6 100 pop).

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. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km ESE of San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.5939° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.1944° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km ESE of San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-16 03:53:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-16 04:11:35 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 4.8 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 371 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 0.961 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us60008gaz Id of event.
Event Code 60008gaz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008gaz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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