Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Chirilagua in El Salvador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Chirilagua in El Salvador on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 58.57 km, -88.2499° West, 12.6287° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003h26. Unique identifier: us20003h26. The temblor was picked up at 01:06:10 / 1:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 58.57 km (36 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/09/15 / 2015-09-07 07:06:10 / September 7, 2015 @ 7:06 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Santiago de María (c. 15 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from El Tránsito (c. 9 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santiago de María, Chinameca, San Miguel (min 5000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.2499° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.6287° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km S of Chirilagua, 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	2015-09-07 07:06:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-07 07:25:32	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	326	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	1.173	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	156	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	us20003h26	Id of event.
Event Code	20003h26	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003h26,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.2499° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.6287° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

58.57 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

66km S of Chirilagua, 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

2015-09-07 07:06:10

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-09-07 07:25:32

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

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

326

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.173

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.88 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

156

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20003h26

Id of event.

Event Code

20003h26

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20003h26,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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