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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Palora in Ecuador


Earthquake location -1.6737S, -77.5661WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Palora in Ecuador. Id of earthquake: us2000b2xw. Event ids that are associated: us2000b2xw. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/10/17 / 2017-10-09 04:15:21 / October 9, 2017 @ 4:15 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:15:21 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 173.38 km (108 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 173.38 km, -77.5661° West, -1.6737° South.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baños, Macas, Archidona. Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Baños (c. 9 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Archidona (c. 7 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Palora (c. 6 500 pop). Close 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km E of Palora, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.5661° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.6737° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km E 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 2017-10-09 04:15:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-09 04:35:18 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 369 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 1.314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us2000b2xw Id of event.
Event Code 2000b2xw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b2xw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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