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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Cotacachi in Ecuador

Posted by admin on November 27, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.4066S, -78.561WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Cotacachi in Ecuador. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:54:58 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -78.561 West, latitude 0.4066 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us7000npar. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000npar. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/24 / 2024-11-01 03:54:58 / November 1, 2024 @ 3:54 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Gabriel, Sangolquí, Quito. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Quito (c. 1 399 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Ibarra (c. 133 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Otavalo (c. 32 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Cayambe (c. 26 600 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Atuntaqui (c. 17 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Gabriel (c. 15 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 35 km WNW of Cotacachi, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.561° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.4066° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km WNW of Cotacachi, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-01 03:54:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-27 23:09:07 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 211 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.201 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 234 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 us7000npar Id of event.
Event Code 7000npar An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000npar, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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