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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near La Maná in Ecuador


Earthquake location -0.9272S, -79.2382WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from La Maná in Ecuador on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 115.067 km, -79.2382° West, -0.9272° South. The temblor was detected at 02:04:18 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 115.067 km (71 miles). Unique identifier: us6000ntet. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ntet. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/24 / 2024-09-21 02:04:18 / September 21, 2024 @ 2:04 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Santo Domingo de los Colorados (c. 200 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Quevedo (c. 119 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Latacunga (c. 51 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Velasco Ibarra (c. 48 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaranda, Ambato, Catarama (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 2 km NW of La Maná, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.2382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.9272° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.067 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NW of La Maná, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-21 02:04:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-21 02:16:35 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 148 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.673 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000ntet Id of event.
Event Code 6000ntet An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntet, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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