Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Colimes in Ecuador

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Colimes in Ecuador. Exact location of earthquake, -80.1234° West, -1.6513° South, depth 49.602 km. Unique identifier: us6000nti3. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nti3. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/09/24 / 2024-09-21 16:47:00 / September 21, 2024 @ 4:47 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.602 km (31 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:47:00 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Junín, Ventanas, Portoviejo. Nearby country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ventanas (c. 46 700 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km SW of Colimes, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.1234° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.6513° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.602 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km SW of Colimes, 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 16:47:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-21 17:00:43	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	178	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	0.776	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	250	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	us6000nti3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nti3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nti3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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