Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Alausí in Ecuador

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Alausí in Ecuador on Tuesday. Event id: us7000ng0b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ng0b. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/24 / 2024-09-24 19:41:59 / September 24, 2024 @ 7:41 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:41:59 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -78.7815 West, latitude -2.0476 South, depth = 125.726 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 125.726 km (78 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Azogues (c. 34 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Naranjito (c. 34 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop). Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, Baños, Sucúa.

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 have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.7815° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.0476° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	125.726 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km NNE of Alausí, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-24 19:41:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-24 20:44:21	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.557	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	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	us7000ng0b	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ng0b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ng0b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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