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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 35 km SSE of Acajutla, El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.2848S, -89.7456WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (mg/mb) was reported Sunday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. The temblor was reported at 11:19:59 / 11:19 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 68.83 km (43 miles). Global time of event 21/06/15 / 2015-06-21 17:19:59 / June 21, 2015 @ 5:19 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -89.7456 West, latitude 13.2848 North, depth 68.83 km, unique identifier, us10002kq9. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us10002kq9,.

Close countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cojutepeque, Jalpatagua, Atescatempa.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.7456° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SSE of Acajutla, El Salvador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-21 17:19:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-21 19:15:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 354 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.64 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002kq9 Id of event.
Event Code 10002kq9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002kq9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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