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Wed, 6 Aug 2025, 19:55 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

Just 13 minutes ago, a 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Quito, Provincia de Pichincha, Ecuador. The tremor was recorded early afternoon on Wednesday, August 6th, 2025, at 2:41 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 13. km below the surface.
The event was filed by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the first seismological agency to report it.
A second report was later issued by the Institute of Geophysics of the National Polytechnic School in Quito (IGEPN), which listed it as a magnitude 3.6 earthquake as well. A third agency, the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake, reported the same quake at magnitude 3.6.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Oyambarillo (pop. 8,000) located 6 km from the epicenter.
Other towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Quito (pop. 2,781,600) located 16 km from the epicenter, Pomasqui (pop. 28,700) 17 km away, Sangolqui (pop. 5,100) 17 km away, Cayambe (pop. 26,600) 37 km away, Machachi (pop. 25,700) 41 km away, Otavalo (pop. 32,300) 49 km away, and Atuntaqui (pop. 17,500) 61 km away. In Latacunga (pop. 205,600, 87

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Wed, 6 Aug 2025, 19:50 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

World map showing volcanoes with shallow (less than 50 km) earthquakes within 20 km radius during the past 24 hours on 6 Aug 2025 Number in brackets indicate nr of quakes.

Quakes detected near: Abu (4 quakes between mag 0.5-1.0), Akuseki-jima (1 quake mag 2.5), Apaneca Range (3 quakes between mag 1.9-2.3), Arayat (1 quake mag 3.0), Askja (6 quakes between mag 0.5-1.5), Cabalian (1 quake mag 2.3)
Campi Flegrei (Phlegrean Fields) (4 quakes between mag 0.1-2.0), Canlaon (1 quake mag 2.1), Cerro Singüil (13 quakes between mag 1.9-3.4), Clear Lake (15 quakes between mag 0.3-1.2), Colima (1 quake mag 2.7), Coso (1 quake mag 1.9), Cuernos de Negros (1 quake mag 3.0), Daisen (3 quakes between mag 0.3-1.0), El Chichón (2 quakes between mag 2.5-2.5), Eldey (2 quakes between mag 0.5-1.1), Etna (1 quake mag 1.1), Gareloi (1 quake mag 1.1), Grímsnes (2 quakes between mag 0.3-1.1), Hachimantai (1 quake mag 1.0), Halla (1 quake mag 3.0), Hiuchi (5 quakes between mag 0.3-1.0), Io-Torishima (1 quake mag 5.0), Isla El Tigre (3 quakes between mag 2.4-3.8), Jan Mayen (2 quakes between mag 1.1-1.2), Katla (3 quakes between mag 0.6-2.0), Kilauea (4 quakes between mag 1.8-2.6), Kolumbo (5 quakes between mag 1.3-1.8), Krísuvík (34 quakes between mag 0.0-1.8), Kuju (3 quakes between mag 0.1-2.3), Latukan (1

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