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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Muisne in Ecuador


Earthquake location 0.4136S, -79.8293WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Muisne in Ecuador on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -79.8293° West, 0.4136° North. Global time and date of event 24/05/16 / 2016-05-24 21:03:17 / May 24, 2016 @ 9:03 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005xme. Id of event: us20005xme. The temblor was reported at 16:03:17 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Pedernales (c. 6 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Esmeraldas, Pedernales, Rosa Zarate. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 30 km SE of Muisne, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.8293° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.4136° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SE 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 2016-05-24 21:03:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-24 21:28:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 326 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 1.389 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us20005xme Id of event.
Event Code 20005xme An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005xme, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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