Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Pimampiro in Ecuador

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Pimampiro in Ecuador on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/24 / 2024-09-28 17:23:02 / September 28, 2024 @ 5:23 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 155.159 km (96 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -77.5497 West, latitude 0.1683 North, depth = 155.159 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nh0g. Unique identifier: us7000nh0g. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:23:02 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Ibarra (c. 133 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tulcán (c. 86 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ipiales (c. 77 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cayambe (c. 26 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Nueva Loja (c. 24 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Valle del Guamuez, Atuntaqui, Ipiales (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km ESE of Pimampiro, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.5497° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.1683° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	155.159 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50 km ESE of Pimampiro, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-28 17:23:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-28 17:35:20	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	0.594	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	244	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	us7000nh0g	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nh0g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nh0g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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