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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Santa Tecla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on April 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.6833S, -89.3443WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Santa Tecla in El Salvador on Monday. Unique identifier: us10008gdr. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008gdr. Global time and date of event 10/04/17 / 2017-04-10 22:21:44 / April 10, 2017 @ 10:21 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.95 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:21:44 / 4:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.95 km, -89.3443° West, 13.6833° North.

Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sensuntepeque, Metapán, Atescatempa (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 7 km W of Santa Tecla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.3443° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km W of Santa Tecla, 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 2017-04-10 22:21:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-10 23:18:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 169 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 0.109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008gdr Id of event.
Event Code 10008gdr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008gdr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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