Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Baláo in Ecuador

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Baláo in Ecuador. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -79.6937° West, latitude -3.0489° South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us7000np8h. Event ids that are associated: us7000np8h. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:14:13 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/24 / 2024-10-31 18:14:13 / October 31, 2024 @ 6:14 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Pasaje (c. 44 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 41 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zarumilla, La Troncal, Cuenca (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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. 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: 20 km SE of Baláo, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.6937° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.0489° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SE of Baláo, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-31 18:14:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-31 18:41:00	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	188	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	0.725	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	333	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	us7000np8h	Id of event.
Event Code	7000np8h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000np8h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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