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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Sucua in Ecuador


Earthquake location -2.8454S, -77.542WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Sucua in Ecuador on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 104.36 km (65 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hg2x. Unique identifier: us2000hg2x. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/18 / 2018-09-17 20:44:39 / September 17, 2018 @ 8:44 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:44:39 / 3:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -77.542° West, latitude -2.8454° South, depth = 104.36 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Macas, Sucúa. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sucúa (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 81 km ESE of Sucua, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.542° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8454° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km ESE of Sucua, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-17 20:44:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-11 19:17:16 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 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 2.415 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 76 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 us2000hg2x Id of event.
Event Code 2000hg2x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hg2x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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