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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Acajutla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on May 26, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.7609S, -90.1265WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/05/17 / 2017-05-26 15:23:38 / May 26, 2017 @ 3:23 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.5 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -90.1265° West, 12.7609° North, depth 47.5 km. The temblor was reported at 09:23:38 / 9:23 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008vh6. Unique identifier: us10008vh6.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acajutla. Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 97 km SSW of Acajutla, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.1265° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.7609° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km SSW of Acajutla, 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 2017-05-26 15:23:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-26 15:44:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 416 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 1.267 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us10008vh6 Id of event.
Event Code 10008vh6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008vh6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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