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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag has occurred near Esmeraldas in Ecuador

Posted by admin on April 25, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.1049S, -79.5345WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Esmeraldas in Ecuador on Friday. Global time and date of event 25/04/25 / 2025-04-25 11:44:55 / April 25, 2025 @ 11:44 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.5345 West, latitude 1.1049 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:44:55 / 11:44 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000pv06. Event ids that are associated: us7000pv06.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pedernales, Tumaco, Rosa Zarate (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Esmeraldas (c. 165 200 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Tumaco (c. 86 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Rosa Zarate (c. 42 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas (c. 20 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Muisne (c. 13 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Valdez (c. 11 400 pop), 129 km (80 miles) from Pedernales (c. 6 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Every year there are an estimated 135 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 five 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km NE of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.5345° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.1049° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km NE of Esmeraldas, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-25 11:44:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-25 12:07:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.1 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 614 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 123 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.712 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pv06 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pv06 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pv06, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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