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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Puyo in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Puyo in Ecuador. Exact location, longitude -77.9198° West, latitude -1.4539° South, depth = 171.766 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 171.766 km (107 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:40:14 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/09/25 / 2025-09-25 23:40:14 / September 25, 2025 @ 11:40 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000rcz1. Event ids that are associated: us6000rcz1.

Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Miguel de Salcedo, Riobamba, Guano (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Riobamba (c. 124 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pelileo (c. 16 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guano (c. 12 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km ENE of Puyo, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.9198° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.4539° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	171.766 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km ENE 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	2025-09-25 23:40:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-27 01:06:22	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	284	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.112	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	us6000rcz1	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rcz1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rcz1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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