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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Acajutla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on August 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.3682S, -89.6619WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. Exact location of event, longitude -89.6619 West, latitude 13.3682 North, depth = 38.89 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:56:45 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/08/15 / 2015-08-17 22:56:45 / August 17, 2015 @ 10:56 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100033aw. Event ids that are associated: us100033aw. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.89 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Atescatempa, Cojutepeque, Zacatecoluca.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 30 km SE of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.6619° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3682° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SE 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 2015-08-17 22:56:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-19 04:25:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 246 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 0.525 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us100033aw Id of event.
Event Code 100033aw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033aw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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