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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Bahía de Caráquez in Ecuador

Posted by admin on September 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.525S, -80.3016WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez in Ecuador. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.3016 West, latitude -0.525 South, depth = 34.456 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:33:06 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 22:33:06 / September 19, 2025 @ 10:33 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.456 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qxh4. Id of event: us7000qxh4.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Velasco Ibarra (c. 48 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Montecristi (c. 18 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jipijapa, Velasco Ibarra, Sucre (min 5000 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km ENE of Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.3016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.525° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.456 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km ENE of Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-19 22:33:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-19 23:21:27 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 369 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.742 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us7000qxh4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxh4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxh4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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