Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Playas in Ecuador

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Playas in Ecuador. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 15:09:13 / October 1, 2024 @ 3:09 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.4751 West, latitude -2.3909 South, depth = 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nhhp. Unique identifier: us7000nhhp. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:09:13 / 3:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Triunfo, Eloy Alfaro, Lomas de Sargentillo. Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from La Libertad (c. 75 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Salinas (c. 43 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Santa Elena (c. 42 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from El Triunfo (c. 32 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 28 km NNW of Playas, Ecuador.

Ecuador El Triunfo Eloy Alfaro Guayaquil La Libertad Lomas de Sargentillo Playas Salinas Santa Elena

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.4751° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.3909° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km NNW 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 15:09:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-01 15:59:23	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	222	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	0.941	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	306	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	us7000nhhp	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nhhp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nhhp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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