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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 14 km NW of Playas, Ecuador

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Earthquake location -2.5504S, -80.4867WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Playas in Ecuador on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 07:23:20 / 7:23 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.176 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -80.4867° West, -2.5504° South, depth 43.176 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 07:23:20 / October 1, 2024 @ 7:23 am. Id of earthquake: us7000nhe3. Event ids that are associated: us7000nhe3.

Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from La Libertad (c. 75 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Salinas (c. 43 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santa Elena (c. 42 200 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Playas (c. 30 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eloy Alfaro, Guayaquil, Santa Lucía (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km NW of Playas, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.4867° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.5504° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.176 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km NW of Playas, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-01 07:23:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-01 08:12:22 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 188 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.999 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000nhe3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nhe3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nhe3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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