Moderate mag. 4.6 earthquake – 27 km west of Jipijapa, Provincia de Manabi, Ecuador, on Thursday, Sep 18, 2025, at 08:49 pm (Guayaquil time)

Published: 18 September 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Sep 18, 05:12 pm (GMT -5)

3.6

5 km25 km (15 mi) to the S 23 km southwest of Jipijapa, Provincia de Manabi, Ecuador  I FELT IT – 1 report

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Sep 18, 04:55 pm (GMT -5)

4.3

5 km36 km (22 mi) to the W Off Coast of Ecuador  I FELT IT – 2 reportsInfoSep 18, 06:38 am (GMT -5)

4.4

5 km55 km (34 mi) to the W Off Coast of Ecuador  I FELT IT – 2 reportsInfoSep 18, 01:14 am (GMT -5)

4.0

15 km48 km (30 mi) to the W Off Coast of Ecuador  I FELT IT – 1 reportInfoSep 17, 08:48 pm (GMT -5)

3.6

11 km29 km (18 mi) to the SW Off Coast of Ecuador  I FELT IT

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Aug 21, 2022 05:28 am (GMT -5)

5.5

13 km116 km (72 mi) to the N South Pacific Ocean, 95 km north of Portoviejo, Provincia de Manabi, Ecuador 7 reportsInfoDec 3, 2017 06:19 am (Guayaquil)

6.1

30 km119 km (74 mi) to the NE Near Coast of Ecuador 59 reportsInfoJun 30, 2017 05:29 pm (Guayaquil)

6.0

16 km128 km (79 mi) to the N Near Coast of Ecuador 23 reportsInfoApr 26, 2016 09:58 pm (Universal Time)

5.4

10 km120 km (75 mi) to the NSouth Pacific Ocean, 301 km north of Isla Puna Island, Ecuador 10 reportsInfoApr 21, 2016 10:03 pm (Guayaquil)

6.0

16 km125 km (78 mi) to the N South Pacific Ocean, 44 km north of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador 70 reportsInfoApr 17, 2016 04:23 am (GMT -5)

5.6

10 km116 km (72 mi) to the N South Pacific Ocean, 51 km northwest of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador 1

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Strong mag. 5.0 earthquake – North Pacific Ocean, 170 km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia, on Friday, Sep 19, 2025, at 12:44 pm (GMT +11)

Published: 18 September 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: PSBL VA EMS

Published: 18 September 2025
Categories: Global Volcano Activity

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Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian

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