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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Esmeraldas in Ecuador

Posted by admin on October 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.078S, -79.4016WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Esmeraldas in Ecuador. Id of earthquake: us7000nmch. Event ids that are associated: us7000nmch. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/10/24 / 2024-10-22 00:55:10 / October 22, 2024 @ 12:55 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -79.4016° West, latitude 1.078° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 00:55:10 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas, Valdez, Esmeraldas. The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas (c. 20 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Valdez (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km ENE of Esmeraldas, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.4016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km ENE of Esmeraldas, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-22 00:55:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-22 01:07:23 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 178 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 9 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 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259 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 us7000nmch Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmch An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmch, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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