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

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Palora in Ecuador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 163.02 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:14:49 / 9:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -78.1015 West, latitude -1.6634 South, depth = 163.02 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007fc2. Id of event: us20007fc2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/10/16 / 2016-10-12 02:14:49 / October 12, 2016 @ 2:14 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Archidona, Sucúa, San Miguel de Salcedo. Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Pelileo (c. 16 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 19 km WNW of Palora, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.1015° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.6634° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	163.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km WNW of Palora, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-12 02:14:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-25 04:08:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	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	0.785	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us20007fc2	Id of event.
Event Code	20007fc2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007fc2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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