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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Muisne in Ecuador


Earthquake location 0.6008S, -80.2697WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Muisne in Ecuador. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.2697 West, latitude 0.6008 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:24:34 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20005l3v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005l3v. Global time and date of event 23/04/16 / 2016-04-23 01:24:34 / April 23, 2016 @ 1:24 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rosa Zarate, Esmeraldas, Pedernales (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Pedernales (c. 6 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 26 km W of Muisne, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.2697° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.6008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km W of Muisne, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-23 01:24:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-23 01:44:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.71 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 518 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 2.485 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005l3v Id of event.
Event Code 20005l3v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005l3v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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