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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near La Libertad in El Salvador

Posted by admin on August 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.3076S, -89.31WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:04:45 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/15 / 2015-08-21 16:04:45 / August 21, 2015 @ 4:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000340s. Event ids that are associated: us1000340s. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 69.16 km (43 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -89.31 West, latitude 13.3076 North, depth = 69.16 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santiago de María, Usulután, Nueva Concepción (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 44 km (28 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km S of La Libertad, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.31° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3076° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km S of La Libertad, 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 2015-08-21 16:04:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-23 22:10:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 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 273 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 0.384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us1000340s Id of event.
Event Code 1000340s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000340s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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