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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 81 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador

Posted by admin on September 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0663S, -90.3537WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. Exact location, longitude -90.3537° West, latitude 13.0663° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000ajfa. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ajfa. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:48:50 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/09/17 / 2017-09-10 13:48:50 / September 10, 2017 @ 1:48 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acajutla (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 81 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.3537° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SW 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 2017-09-10 13:48:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-10 17:02:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 284 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 1.254 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us2000ajfa Id of event.
Event Code 2000ajfa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ajfa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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