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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near El Rosario in El Salvador

Posted by admin on November 27, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0735S, -88.9785WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from El Rosario in El Salvador on Friday. Id of earthquake: us100041q5. Event ids that are associated: us100041q5. Exact location of earthquake, -88.9785° West, 13.0735° North, depth 61.78 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.78 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:46:27 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/11/15 / 2015-11-27 11:46:27 / November 27, 2015 @ 11:46 am.

Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coatepeque, Ciudad Barrios, San Antonio del Monte (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 47 km S of El Rosario, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.9785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km S of El Rosario, 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 2015-11-27 11:46:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-27 12:03:57 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 4.3 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 452 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 0.657 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us100041q5 Id of event.
Event Code 100041q5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041q5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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