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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Intipuca in El Salvador

Posted by admin on April 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.6419S, -88.0699WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Intipuca in El Salvador. Exact location of event, depth 73.64 km, -88.0699° West, 12.6419° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005j8r. Unique identifier: us20005j8r. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 73.64 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:19:01 / 11:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 17:19:01 / April 17, 2016 @ 5:19 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chinameca, Puerto Morazán, Corinto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

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 fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km S of Intipuca, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.0699° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6419° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km S of Intipuca, 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 2016-04-17 17:19:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-17 17:37:39 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 354 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 0.996 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us20005j8r Id of event.
Event Code 20005j8r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005j8r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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