Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Palora in Ecuador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Palora in Ecuador on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 184.843 km, -77.6956° West, -1.5847° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/24 / 2024-09-04 13:57:14 / September 4, 2024 @ 1:57 pm. The temblor was picked up at 13:57:14 / 1:57 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 184.843 km (115 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000npn5. Id of event: us6000npn5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Macas, Baños, Archidona. Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Baños (c. 9 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Archidona (c. 7 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Palora (c. 6 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 32 km ENE of Palora, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.6956° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.5847° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	184.843 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km ENE of Palora, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-04 13:57:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-11 11:24:44	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	298	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	111	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.342	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us6000npn5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000npn5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000npn5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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