Magnitude 7.2 - ECUADOR

[Shiloh]

Source: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...pt10224000.php

Magnitude 7.2 - ECUADOR
2010 August 12 11:54:14 UTC


Earthquake Details

Magnitude 7.2 (Preliminary magnitude ? update expected within 15 minutes)
Date-Time

* Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 11:54:14 UTC
* Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 06:54:14 AM at epicenter

Location 1.380?S, 77.400?W
Depth 186 km (115.6 miles) set by location program
Region ECUADOR
Distances

* 139 km (86 miles) E (94?) from Ambato, Ecuador
* 177 km (110 miles) SE (136?) from QUITO, Ecuador
* 245 km (152 miles) NE (46?) from Cuenca, Ecuador

Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available
Parameters NST= 18, Nph=0, Dmin=0 km, Rmss=0 sec, Gp= 0,
M-type=(unknown type), Version=B
Source

* NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

Event ID pt10224000

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Magnitude 7.2 - ECUADOR

Ambato has about 350,000 people.

The city has been fully or partially destroyed by earthquakes several times in its history, most recently on 5 August 1949 when the city and its cathedral were almost completely levelled. The city was rebuilt in the two years following.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambato,_Ecuador

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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Magnitude 7.2 - ECUADOR

Thankfully it is deep, as opposed to Haiti's shallow quake.

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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Magnitude 7.2 - ECUADOR

Downgraded to 6.9.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010zwa5.php