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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Santa Lucia in Ecuador


Earthquake location -2.1117S, -80.2094WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Santa Lucia in Ecuador. Event id: us70005mf6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005mf6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.01 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 19/09/19 / 2019-09-19 17:55:26 / September 19, 2019 @ 5:55 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -80.2094° West, latitude -2.1117° South, depth = 54.01 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:55:26 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Balzar, Coronel Marcelino Maridueña, Salinas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from La Libertad (c. 75 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Salinas (c. 43 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Santa Elena (c. 42 200 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 one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km WNW of Santa Lucia, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.2094° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.1117° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km WNW of Santa Lucia, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-19 17:55:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-01 20:02:02 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 246 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 1.014 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 us70005mf6 Id of event.
Event Code 70005mf6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005mf6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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