Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Cañar in Ecuador

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Cañar in Ecuador. Unique identifier: us6000c64h. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c64h. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 104.84 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -78.5602° West, latitude -2.4765° South, depth = 104.84 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/09/20 / 2020-09-30 00:46:44 / September 30, 2020 @ 12:46 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:46:44 / 12:46 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Azogues (c. 34 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Gualaceo (c. 17 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Riobamba, La Troncal, Cuenca (min 5000 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km ENE of Cañar, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.5602° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.4765° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	104.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km ENE of Cañar, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-30 00:46:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-06 22:01:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	271	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	1.736	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us6000c64h	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c64h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c64h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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