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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Jipijapa in Ecuador

Posted by admin on September 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.2704S, -80.8101WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Jipijapa in Ecuador. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:49:50 / 1:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -80.8101 West, latitude -1.2704 South, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 01:49:50 / September 19, 2025 @ 1:49 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000qx6e. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qx6e.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colimes, Pedro Carbo, Bahía de Caráquez. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Pedro Carbo (c. 23 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Montecristi (c. 18 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Calceta (c. 17 300 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 27 km WNW of Jipijapa, Ecuador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.8101° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.2704° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km WNW of Jipijapa, 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 01:49:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-19 02:06:36 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 326 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.326 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us7000qx6e Id of event.
Event Code 7000qx6e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qx6e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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