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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Chirilagua in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.447S, -88.4001WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Chirilagua in El Salvador. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007c5q. Unique identifier: us10007c5q. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:44:57 / 3:44 pm (local time epicenter). 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: 24/11/16 / 2016-11-24 21:44:57 / November 24, 2016 @ 9:44 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -88.4001 West, latitude 12.447 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto El Triunfo, Chirilagua. Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Chirilagua (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 90 km SSW of Chirilagua, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.4001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.447° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km SSW of Chirilagua, 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 2016-11-24 21:44:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-24 23:10:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 298 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 1.341 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us10007c5q Id of event.
Event Code 10007c5q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007c5q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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