Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Bahía de Caráquez in Ecuador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez in Ecuador on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 01:27:59 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000rf82. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rf82. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 07/10/25 / 2025-10-07 01:27:59 / October 7, 2025 @ 1:27 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.23 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -80.281° West, latitude -0.4711° South, depth = 38.23 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Chone (c. 44 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Montecristi (c. 18 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Calceta (c. 17 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sucre, Santa Ana, Montecristi.

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 three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km NE of Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.281° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-0.4711° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km NE 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	2025-10-07 01:27:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-30 04:14:53	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	298	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.453	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	us6000rf82	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rf82	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rf82,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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