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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Bahía de Caráquez in Ecuador

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez in Ecuador. Id of earthquake: us7000np04. Event ids that are associated: us7000np04. Exact location of earthquake, -80.5723° West, -0.6603° South, depth 37.89 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:12:13 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.89 km (24 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/24 / 2024-10-30 13:12:13 / October 30, 2024 @ 1:12 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jipijapa, Sucre, Santa Ana. Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Montecristi (c. 18 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 17 km WSW of Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador.

Bahía de Caráquez Chone Ecuador Jipijapa Manta Montecristi Portoviejo Santa Ana Sucre

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.5723° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-0.6603° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km WSW of Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-30 13:12:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-30 18:01:03	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	284	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	2.035	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	280	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	us7000np04	Id of event.
Event Code	7000np04	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000np04,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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