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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Sucua in Ecuador


Earthquake location -2.8007S, -77.3534WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Sucua in Ecuador. Unique identifier: us1000jjan. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jjan. Exact location of earthquake, -77.3534° West, -2.8007° South, depth 45.58 km. The temblor was detected at 11:23:24 / 11:23 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/03/19 / 2019-03-20 16:23:24 / March 20, 2019 @ 4:23 pm. 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 45.58 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Sucúa (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Macas, Sucúa.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 97 km ESE of Sucua, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.3534° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8007° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km 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 2019-03-20 16:23:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-20 16:40:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 400 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 1.93 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us1000jjan Id of event.
Event Code 1000jjan An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jjan, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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