Magnitude 7.2 Near Coast of Ecuador
1998 August 04 18:59:20 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
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Magnitude | 7.2 | |
| Date-Time | 1998 08 04 18:59:20 UTC | ||
| Location | 0.59S 80.39W | ||
| Depth | 33.0 kilometers | ||
| Region | Near Coast of Ecuador | ||
| Reference |
60 km (35 miles) N of Portoviejo, Ecuador 185 km (115 miles) SSW of Esmeraldas, Ecuador 190 km (115 miles) NNW of Guayaquil, Ecuador 215 km (135 miles) W of QUITO, Ecuador |
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| Location Quality | Error estimate not available | ||
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Location Quality Parameters |
Not available | ||
| Source | USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) | ||
| Remarks | Three people killed and forty injured in the Bahia de Caraquez- Canoa area. Approximately sixty percent of the buildings at Canoa severely damaged. Electricity, telephone and water services disrupted and most buildings with three or more stories damaged at Bahia de Caraquez. Considerable damage in many other parts of western Manabi Province. Landslides blocked a road between Bahia de Caraquez and Canoa. Felt strongly at Guayaquil and Quito. Felt in much of Ecuador and also at Cali, Colombia. Two large events occurring about 3 and 7 seconds after small onset. |
NB:
The region name is an automatically generated name
from the Flinn-Engdahl (F-E) seismic and geographical regionalization scheme.
The boundaries of
these regions are defined at one-degree intervals and therefore differ from
irregular political boundaries.
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