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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 49 km S of San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Posted by admin on September 27, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.8407S, -78.7806WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas in Ecuador. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67.716 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -78.7806 West, latitude 0.8407 North, depth = 67.716 km. Unique identifier: us7000ngqa. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ngqa. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/09/24 / 2024-09-27 00:29:32 / September 27, 2024 @ 12:29 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:29:32 / 12:29 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Valdez, San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas (c. 20 200 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Valdez (c. 11 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 49 km S of San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.7806° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.8407° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.716 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km S of San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-27 00:29:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-27 03:09:53 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 129 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us7000ngqa Id of event.
Event Code 7000ngqa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ngqa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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