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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Alausí in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Alausí in Ecuador. Event id: us6000r3gp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r3gp. The temblor was detected at 10:50:33 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/08/25 / 2025-08-24 10:50:33 / August 24, 2025 @ 10:50 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -79.0381° West, latitude -2.3117° South, depth = 101.13 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.13 km (63 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Guayaquil (c. 1 952 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cuenca (c. 277 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Eloy Alfaro (c. 167 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Babahoyo (c. 76 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from La Troncal (c. 36 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Azogues (c. 34 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sucúa, Guayaquil, Catarama.

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

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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: 24 km WSW of Alausí, Ecuador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.0381° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.3117° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101.13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km WSW of Alausí, Ecuador	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-24 10:50:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-24 11:04:16	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	354	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	0.267	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us6000r3gp	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r3gp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r3gp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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