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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Quezaltepeque in El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.7863S, -89.3011WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Quezaltepeque in El Salvador on Sunday. Event id: us20003mpq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003mpq. The temblor was reported at 23:08:57 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 05:08:57 / September 21, 2015 @ 5:08 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.39 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.3011 West, latitude 13.7863 North, depth = 1.39 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Marcos, Asunción Mita, Nueva Ocotepeque (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 6 km SSW of Quezaltepeque, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.3011° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7863° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW of Quezaltepeque, 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 2015-09-21 05:08:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-22 02:34:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 151 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 0.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003mpq Id of event.
Event Code 20003mpq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003mpq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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