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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Puyo in Ecuador

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Puyo in Ecuador. Exact location, longitude -77.8529° West, latitude -1.3477° South, depth = 179.509 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:13:50 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rnv4. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rnv4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 179.509 km (112 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/11/25 / 2025-11-17 23:13:50 / November 17, 2025 @ 11:13 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Ambato (c. 154 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Puyo (c. 24 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tena (c. 17 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pelileo (c. 16 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Guano (c. 12 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Miguel de Salcedo (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guano, San Miguel de Salcedo, Ambato (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km NE of Puyo, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.8529° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.3477° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	179.509 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 km NE 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	2025-11-17 23:13:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-18 03:03:24	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	271	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.224	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us6000rnv4	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rnv4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rnv4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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