151 km NW of Quito, Ecuador / pop: 1,399,814 / local time: 11:46:43.5 2016-05-18
29 km W of Rosa Zárate, Ecuador / pop: 42,121 / local time: 11:46:43.5 2016-05-18
For more information on computation, see the article Bossu et al., 2016:
Thumbnail Based Questionnaires for the Rapid and Efficient Collection of Macroseismic Data from Global Earthquakes, Rémy Bossu, Matthieu Landès, Fréderic Roussel, Robert Steed, Gilles Mazet-Roux, Stacey S. Martin, and Susan Hough. Seismological Research Letter. Oct 2016. doi: 10.1785/0220160120;
Furthermore, to avoid the association with wrong events, we filter testimonies in distance and in intensity depending on the magnitude of the seismic event.
References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Coffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M., and Lawver, L.A., 1998, Present-day Plate Boundary Digital Data Compilation. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report No. 174, pp. 5.
Maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area .
Regional instrumental seismicity
This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.
Regional deadly earthquakes from 1500 to origin time
Date
Long.
Lat.
Mag.
Death
Location
1575-09-08
-78.6
-0.2
7.5
many
ECUADOR
1587-08-30
-78.5
-0.2
?
many
ECUADOR
1640-02-00
-78.6
-1.7
?
5000
ECUADOR
1645-02-19
-78.6
-1.7
7.5
many
ECUADOR
1698-06-20
-78.7
-1.2
7.7
many
ECUADOR
1755-04-26
-78.5
-0.2
7.0
many
ECUADOR
1757-02-22
-78.6
-0.9
7.0
1000
ECUADOR
1797-02-04
-78.6
-1.7
8.3
40000
ECUADOR
1859-03-22
-78.5
-0.3
6.3
5000
ECUADOR
1868-08-16
-78.2
0.3
7.7
40000
COLOMBIA-ECUADOR BORDER REGION
1869-08-15
-78.1
0.3
?
32
COLOMBIA-ECUADOR BORDER REGION
1906-01-31
-81.5
1.0
8.6
1000
OFF COAST OF ECUADOR
1923-12-14
-77.5
1.0
7.0
300
COLOMBIA
1924-03-03
-78.6
-1.6
6.9
40
ECUADOR
1936-01-09
-77.6
1.1
7.0
250
COLOMBIA
1942-05-14
-81.5
-0.7
7.9
200
OFF COAST OF ECUADOR
1949-08-05
-78.3
-1.5
6.8
6000
ECUADOR
1979-12-12
-79.4
1.6
7.9
600
NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR
1987-03-06
-77.8
0.2
6.9
5000
COLOMBIA-ECUADOR BORDER REGION
2000-09-20
-80.5
-1.9
5.5
1
NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR
2014-08-12
-78.2
-0.0
5.0
2
ECUADOR
2016-04-16
-79.9
0.4
7.8
663
NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR
2016-05-18
-79.7
0.4
6.9
1
NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR
Source:
From 1500 to 1999: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718
Testimonies, photos
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