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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on July 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.6488S, -88.7306WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/07/16 / 2016-07-09 17:29:37 / July 9, 2016 @ 5:29 pm. The temblor was reported at 11:29:37 / 11:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.7306 West, latitude 12.6488 North, depth = 68.1 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 68.1 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006281. Unique identifier: us10006281.

Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zacatecoluca, San Rafael Oriente, Chirilagua. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from El Tránsito (c. 9 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Jiquilisco (c. 9 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Chirilagua (c. 6 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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 fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 72 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.7306° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6488° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km SSW 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 2016-07-09 17:29:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-09 18:39:07 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 1.993 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us10006281 Id of event.
Event Code 10006281 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006281, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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