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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near offshore El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.0407S, -89.9762WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, offshore El Salvador kilometers (0 miles) from offshore El Salvador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 13:29:04 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -89.9762° West, 13.0407° North, depth 59.94 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.94 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008s65. Id of event: us10008s65. Global time and date of event 13/05/17 / 2017-05-13 13:29:04 / May 13, 2017 @ 1:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Izalco (c. 19 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sonzacate (c. 15 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Armenia (c. 15 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Zaragoza (c. 11 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zaragoza, Tacuba, Armenia (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: offshore El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.9762° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0407° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place offshore 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 2017-05-13 13:29:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-13 14:33:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 0.968 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us10008s65 Id of event.
Event Code 10008s65 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008s65, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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