Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Baláo in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Baláo in Ecuador. Exact location of earthquake, -79.8935° West, -3.0415° South, depth 63.412 km. Id of earthquake: us7000px81. Event ids that are associated: us7000px81. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:17:23 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.412 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/25 / 2025-05-05 09:17:23 / May 5, 2025 @ 9:17 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tumbes, Portovelo, Zaruma. Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Pasaje (c. 44 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 41 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Naranjal (c. 32 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 16 km SSW of Baláo, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.8935° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.0415° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63.412 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km SSW of Baláo, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-05 09:17:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-29 13:53:25	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	259	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.855	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	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	us7000px81	Id of event.
Event Code	7000px81	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000px81,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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