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Say -- Did you feel the earth move? 4.7 mg near RioBamba

12 years ago
For those of you into this sort of thing:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0008sls.php

Magnitude 4.7

Date-Time
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 23:57:20 UTC
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 06:57:20 PM at epicenter

Location
1.983°S, 78.466°W
Depth
72.9 km (45.3 miles)
Region
ECUADOR

Distances
39 km (24 miles) SSE of Riobamba, Ecuador
82 km (50 miles) SSE of Ambato, Ecuador
115 km (71 miles) NNE of Cuenca, Ecuador
195 km (121 miles) S of QUITO, Ecuador


Location Uncertainty

horizontal +/- 29.4 km (18.3 miles); depth +/- 10.1 km (6.3 miles)


Parameters
NST= 90, Nph= 90, Dmin=246 km, Rmss=0.7 sec, Gp=148°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=5

Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0008sls


....ah Ecuador, you rock and roll!

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