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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, off the coast of Ecuador


Earthquake location 1.0202S, -85.3741WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, off the coast of Ecuador (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/04/24 / 2024-04-29 18:25:21 / April 29, 2024 @ 6:25 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:25:21 / 6:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000mx00. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mx00. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -85.3741 West, latitude 1.0202 North, depth = 10 km.

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

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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: off the coast of Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -85.3741° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.0202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place off the coast of Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-29 18:25:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-12 15:30:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us6000mx00 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mx00 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mx00, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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