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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Guayaquil in Ecuador

Posted by admin on January 13, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.2896S, -79.8333WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Guayaquil in Ecuador. Exact location of event, longitude -79.8333 West, latitude -2.2896 South, depth = 82.652 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:20:53 / 2:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/01/25 / 2025-01-13 02:20:53 / January 13, 2025 @ 2:20 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000pjm2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pjm2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 82.652 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paján, Cañar, Balzar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 12 km (8 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Ventanas (c. 46 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Balzar (c. 40 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Naranjito (c. 34 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 11 km SSE of Guayaquil, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.8333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.2896° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.652 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km SSE of Guayaquil, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-13 02:20:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-13 02:36:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 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 405 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 70 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.601 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us6000pjm2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pjm2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pjm2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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