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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Acajutla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on February 2, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.9026S, -89.7994WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. Global time and date of event 02/02/16 / 2016-02-02 13:32:57 / February 2, 2016 @ 1:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -89.7994° West, 12.9026° North. Event id: us20004wjv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004wjv. 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 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:32:57 / 7:32 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Izalco (c. 19 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sonzacate (c. 15 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Zaragoza (c. 11 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from San Antonio del Monte (c. 9 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nahuizalco, Izalco, Zaragoza.

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

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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. 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: 76 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.7994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9026° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km S 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 2016-02-02 13:32:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-02 15:39:46 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 0.955 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us20004wjv Id of event.
Event Code 20004wjv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004wjv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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