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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Pujilí in Ecuador

Posted by admin on January 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.9993S, -78.7997WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pujilí in Ecuador. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.115 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/25 / 2025-01-09 23:09:44 / January 9, 2025 @ 11:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000pj1z. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pj1z. Exact location, longitude -78.7997° West, latitude -0.9993° South, depth = 10.115 km. The temblor was detected at 23:09:44 / 11:09 pm (local time epicenter).

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 Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Quito, Ventanas. Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Quito (c. 1 399 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Santo Domingo de los Colorados (c. 200 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Quevedo (c. 119 400 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Latacunga (c. 51 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 12 km WSW of Pujilí, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.7997° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.9993° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.115 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km WSW of Pujilí, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-09 23:09:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-27 02:46:17 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.404 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us6000pj1z Id of event.
Event Code 6000pj1z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pj1z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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