Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Jiquilisco in El Salvador

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Jiquilisco in El Salvador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -88.8203 West, latitude 13.1232 North, depth = 72.4 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:08:44 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004tqy. Unique identifier: us10004tqy. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/16 / 2016-03-01 01:08:44 / March 1, 2016 @ 1:08 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.4 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciudad Arce, San Juan Opico, Chalatenango (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.8203° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.1232° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km SW of Jiquilisco, 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	2016-03-01 01:08:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-01 01:24:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	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	385	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	0.688	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us10004tqy	Id of event.
Event Code	10004tqy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004tqy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.8203° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.1232° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

72.4 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

33km SW of Jiquilisco, 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

2016-03-01 01:08:44

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-03-01 01:24:46

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-360

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

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

385

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

0.688

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

Root Mean Square

1.32 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

110

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

us10004tqy

Id of event.

Event Code

10004tqy

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

Event IDS

,us10004tqy,

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

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