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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Archidona in Ecuador

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Archidona in Ecuador. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/06/25 / 2025-06-17 02:46:26 / June 17, 2025 @ 2:46 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000qkr0. Event ids that are associated: us6000qkr0. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.38 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -78.1283° West, latitude -0.8897° South, depth = 6.38 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:46:26 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Riobamba, Cayambe, Guano. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Quito (c. 1 399 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Latacunga (c. 51 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Cayambe (c. 26 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Machachi (c. 25 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 35 km W of Archidona, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.1283° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-0.8897° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km W of Archidona, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-17 02:46:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-17 03:02:45	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	3.4	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	385	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.275	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us6000qkr0	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qkr0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qkr0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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