Light earthquake 4 mag, 46 km SW of La Libertad, El Salvador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador. The epicenter was at a depth of 47.35 km (29 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/09/16 / 2016-09-29 06:55:00 / September 29, 2016 @ 6:55 am. The temblor was reported at 00:55:00 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.6034 West, latitude 13.1743 North, depth = 47.35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100072md. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100072md.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacuba, Zacatecoluca, Ahuachapán. Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km SW of La Libertad, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.6034° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.1743° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km SW of La Libertad, 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	2016-09-29 06:55:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-28 13:11:06	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	246	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	0.624	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	177	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us100072md	Id of event.
Event Code	100072md	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100072md,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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