Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Global time and date of event 08/06/16 / 2016-06-08 09:56:54 / June 8, 2016 @ 9:56 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us200062r4. Event ids that are associated: us200062r4. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.3 km (20 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 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:56:54 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -89.0244 West, latitude 12.7421 North, depth = 32.3 km.

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santiago Nonualco (c. 9 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Jiquilisco (c. 9 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Olocuilta (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby 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 Rosario de Mora, Olocuilta, Usulután.

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

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El Salvador Jiquilisco La Libertad Olocuilta Puerto El Triunfo Rosario de Mora Santiago Nonualco Usulután Zacatecoluca

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.0244° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.7421° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, 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	2016-06-08 09:56:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-08 10:43:18	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	312	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	0.96	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165	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	us200062r4	Id of event.
Event Code	200062r4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200062r4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-89.0244° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.7421° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

32.3 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

78km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, 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

2016-06-08 09:56:54

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-06-08 10:43:18

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

312

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

0.96

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

Root Mean Square

0.79 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

165

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

us200062r4

Id of event.

Event Code

200062r4

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

Event IDS

,us200062r4,

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

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