Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Palora in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Palora in Ecuador. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pfdr. Id of event: us6000pfdr. The temblor was picked up at 23:00:52 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/24 / 2024-12-23 23:00:52 / December 23, 2024 @ 11:00 pm. Exact location, longitude -78.0147° West, latitude -1.6686° South, depth = 182.674 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 182.674 km (114 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 San Miguel de Salcedo, Sucúa, Archidona. Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Pelileo (c. 16 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 6 km WNW of Palora, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.0147° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.6686° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	182.674 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km WNW 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	2024-12-23 23:00:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-30 00:51:22	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	298	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.175	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us6000pfdr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pfdr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pfdr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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