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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Sucua in Ecuador

Posted by admin on May 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.8278S, -77.6555WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Sucua in Ecuador. Id of earthquake: us70009afm. Event ids that are associated: us70009afm. Exact location of earthquake, -77.6555° West, -2.8278° South, depth 70.09 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 70.09 km (44 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:35:52 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 03:35:52 / April 29, 2020 @ 3:35 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sucúa (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Macas, Sucúa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km SE of Sucua, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.6555° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8278° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km SE of Sucua, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-29 03:35:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-07 01:51:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 1.64 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us70009afm Id of event.
Event Code 70009afm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009afm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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