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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Santa Elena in Ecuador

Posted by admin on October 6, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.0657S, -80.5293WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Santa Elena in Ecuador on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000nwsi. Event ids that are associated: us6000nwsi. Exact location of earthquake, -80.5293° West, -2.0657° South, depth 35 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:54:02 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/10/24 / 2024-10-05 23:54:02 / October 5, 2024 @ 11:54 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yaguachi Nuevo, Palestina, Samborondón. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from La Libertad (c. 75 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Salinas (c. 43 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Santa Elena (c. 42 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 40 km ENE of Santa Elena, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.5293° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.0657° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km ENE of Santa Elena, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-05 23:54:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-06 00:16:09 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 271 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.98 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 289 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 us6000nwsi Id of event.
Event Code 6000nwsi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nwsi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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