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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Propicia in Ecuador


Earthquake location 0.7034S, -79.5232WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Propicia in Ecuador. Id of earthquake: us100062j4. Event ids that are associated: us100062j4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.45 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.5232 West, latitude 0.7034 North, depth = 11.45 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:40:30 / 2:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/07/16 / 2016-07-11 07:40:30 / July 11, 2016 @ 7:40 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pedernales, Valdez, Muisne. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Valdez (c. 11 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Pedernales (c. 6 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. 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: 31 km SE of Propicia, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.5232° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.7034° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km SE of Propicia, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-11 07:40:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-11 08:34:04 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 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 284 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 1.167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us100062j4 Id of event.
Event Code 100062j4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100062j4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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