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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Pedro Carbo in Ecuador

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Pedro Carbo in Ecuador. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 58.803 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/10/24 / 2024-10-16 10:06:09 / October 16, 2024 @ 10:06 am. The temblor was detected at 10:06:09 / 10:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.3848 West, latitude -2.0623 South, depth = 58.803 km. Id of earthquake: us6000nz0s. Event ids that are associated: us6000nz0s.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yaguachi Nuevo, Palestina, Samborondón. Nearby country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from La Libertad (c. 75 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Salinas (c. 43 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Santa Elena (c. 42 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days nine 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 32 km SSW of Pedro Carbo, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.3848° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.0623° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.803 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km SSW of Pedro Carbo, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-16 10:06:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-17 04:35:34	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	168	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.837	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	301	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	us6000nz0s	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nz0s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nz0s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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