Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near offshore El Salvador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, offshore El Salvador kilometers (0 miles) from offshore El Salvador. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:26:21 / 11:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/17 / 2017-05-13 11:26:21 / May 13, 2017 @ 11:26 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008s59. Unique identifier: us10008s59. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.7 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 56.7 km, -90.0082° West, 12.9594° North.

The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Izalco (c. 19 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sonzacate (c. 15 400 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Juayúa (c. 9 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Antonio del Monte (c. 9 100 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concepción de Ataco, Juayúa, Nahuizalco (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: offshore El Salvador.

Acajutla Concepción de Ataco El Salvador Izalco Juayúa La Libertad Nahuizalco offshore El Salvador San Antonio del Monte Sonsonate Sonzacate

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.0082° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.9594° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	56.7 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 11:26:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-13 11:43:56	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	369	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	1.046	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us10008s59	Id of event.
Event Code	10008s59	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008s59,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-90.0082° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.9594° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

56.7 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 11:26:21

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-05-13 11:43:56

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

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

369

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.046

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.1 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

134

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10008s59

Id of event.

Event Code

10008s59

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10008s59,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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