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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Naranjal in Ecuador

Posted by admin on May 10, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.5589S, -79.7426WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Naranjal in Ecuador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000pyez. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pyez. Global time and date of event 10/05/25 / 2025-05-10 12:12:53 / May 10, 2025 @ 12:12 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 12:12:53 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -79.7426° West, -2.5589° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Montalvo, Pedro Carbo, Cuenca (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Pasaje (c. 44 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop). Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 18 km NW of Naranjal, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.7426° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.5589° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 km NW of Naranjal, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-10 12:12:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-10 12:46:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 340 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us7000pyez Id of event.
Event Code 7000pyez An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pyez, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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