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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on November 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.1766S, -88.9986WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 131 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador (81 miles) on Thursday. Global time and date of event 25/11/16 / 2016-11-25 02:40:18 / November 25, 2016 @ 2:40 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us10007c7a. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007c7a. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:40:18 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -88.9986 West, latitude 12.1766 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 131 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.9986° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.1766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km 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 2016-11-25 02:40:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-25 03:04:22 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 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 326 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 1.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us10007c7a Id of event.
Event Code 10007c7a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007c7a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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