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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Acajutla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on August 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.4931S, -89.6822WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/16 / 2016-07-23 08:19:39 / July 23, 2016 @ 8:19 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.25 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -89.6822° West, 13.4931° North, depth 60.25 km. Event id: us20006i3n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006i3n. The temblor was detected at 02:19:39 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Martín, Zacatecoluca, Suchitoto. Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km SE of Acajutla, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.6822° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4931° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SE 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 2016-07-23 08:19:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 07:00:54 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 259 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 0.478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 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 us20006i3n Id of event.
Event Code 20006i3n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006i3n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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