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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Puyo in Ecuador

Posted by admin on September 3, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.6058S, -78.0697WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Puyo in Ecuador on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qthm. Id of event: us7000qthm. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/09/25 / 2025-09-03 14:56:44 / September 3, 2025 @ 2:56 pm. Exact location, longitude -78.0697° West, latitude -1.6058° South, depth = 163.32 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 163.32 km (101 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:56:44 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Latacunga (c. 51 700 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Macas (c. 23 700 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Guaranda (c. 22 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alausí, San Miguel, Guaranda (min 5000 pop).

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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km SSW of Puyo, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.0697° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.6058° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 163.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km SSW of Puyo, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-03 14:56:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-03 15:13:12 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 432 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 179 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.121 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us7000qthm Id of event.
Event Code 7000qthm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qthm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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