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Light mag. 3.5 earthquake - Provincia de Napo, 42 km northeast of Ambato, Provincia del Tungurahua, Ecuador, on Tuesday, Feb 2, 2021 at 7:39 am (GMT -5)

Light magnitude 3.5 earthquake at 2 km depth

2 Feb 12:44 UTC: First to report: IGEPN after 4 minutes.
2 Feb 12:52: Hypocenter depth recalculated from 5.0 to 2.0 km (from 3.1 to 1.2 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 13 km (8.3 mi) towards E.

Earthquake details

Date & time	Feb 2, 2021 12:39:58 UTC
Local time at epicenter	Tuesday, Feb 2, 2021 at 7:39 am (GMT -5)
Status	Confirmed
Magnitude	3.5
Depth	2.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude	1.05°S / 78.3°W (Provincia de Napo, Ecuador)
Antipode	1.05°N / 101.7°E
Shaking intensity	Light shaking near epicenter
Felt	0 reports
Primary data source	IGEPN (Institute of Geophysics of the National Polytechnic School in Quito)
Nearest volcano	Cotopaxi (44 km / 27 mi)
Nearby towns and cities	31 km (19 mi) ENE of Pillaro (Cantón Píllaro, Tungurahua) (pop: 7,460) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 32 km (20 mi) E of San Miguel de Salcedo (Salcedo, Cotopaxi) (pop: 10,800) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 41 km (25 mi) NNE of Banos (Cantón Baños, Tungurahua) (pop: 9,500) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 41 km (26 mi) NE of Pelileo (Provincia de Tungurahua) (pop: 16,600) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 42 km (26 mi) ENE of Ambato (Provincia de Tungurahua) (pop: 154,400) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 45 km (28 mi) ESE of Pujili (Cotopaxi) (pop: 16,200) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 55 km (34 mi) W of Tena (Napo) (pop: 17,200) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 67 km (42 mi) SSE of Machachi (Mejia, Pichincha) (pop: 25,700) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 95 km (59 mi) SSE of Quito (Pichincha) (pop: 1,399,800) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 218 km (135 mi) NE of Guayaquil (Guayas) (pop: 1,952,000) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby
Weather at epicenter at time of quake	Broken Clouds 9°C (48 F), humidity: 93%, wind: 4 m/s (7 kts) from S
Estimated seismic energy released	1.1 x 10¹⁰ joules (3.12 megawatt hours, equivalent to 2.68 tons of TNT) \| about seismic energy

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Mag.	Depth	Location	Source
3.5	2 km	Ecuador - Napo, A 31.06km De Pillaro	IGEPN
3.5	2 km	ECUADOR	EMSC

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Seismic station: Tumaco, Narino, Colombia (TUM/CM network) | Distance from quake: 323 km / 201 mi | Show on map | Station Info

Seismic station Tumaco, Narino, Colombia: vertical movement plot around time of quake (source: IRIS/BUD)

Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive some time later, depending on distance. Bandpass filter applied: 0.5-10.0 Hz. Source: IRIS Buffer of Uniform Data (BUD) webtool

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