A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10007396. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007396. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -90.5103° West, 13.0338° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/10/16 / 2016-10-31 15:22:12 / October 31, 2016 @ 3:22 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:22:12 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acajutla (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 97 km (60 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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: 96 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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