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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Ventanas in Ecuador

Posted by admin on May 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.2602S, -79.5659WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ventanas in Ecuador on Saturday. Unique identifier: us6000a2mq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000a2mq. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:40:08 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106.41 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/05/20 / 2020-05-30 12:40:08 / May 30, 2020 @ 12:40 pm. Exact location, longitude -79.5659° West, latitude -1.2602° South, depth = 106.41 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pedro Carbo, Sucre, Yaguachi Nuevo. The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Quevedo (c. 119 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Velasco Ibarra (c. 48 800 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Ventanas (c. 46 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Balzar (c. 40 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Vinces (c. 32 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

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. 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 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. 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: 23 km NNW of Ventanas, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.5659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.2602° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km NNW of Ventanas, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-30 12:40:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-30 13:01:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 341 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 8.014 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 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 us6000a2mq Id of event.
Event Code 6000a2mq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a2mq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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