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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 6 km ENE of Santa Ana, Ecuador

Posted by admin on August 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.1904S, -80.335WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Santa Ana in Ecuador. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/08/15 / 2015-08-18 04:49:07 / August 18, 2015 @ 4:49 am. Exact location of earthquake, -80.335° West, -1.1904° South, depth 52.76 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.76 km (33 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:49:07 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000332g. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000332g.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Velasco Ibarra (c. 48 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Balzar (c. 40 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Triunfo, Lomas de Sargentillo, Velasco Ibarra (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km ENE of Santa Ana, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.1904° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ENE of Santa Ana, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-18 04:49:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-18 05:43:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 314 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000332g Id of event.
Event Code 1000332g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000332g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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