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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on September 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.9849S, -88.7877WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/17 / 2017-09-24 00:29:06 / September 24, 2017 @ 12:29 am. Exact location of event, longitude -88.7877 West, latitude 12.9849 North, depth = 60.16 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:29:06 / 6:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.16 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000atre. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000atre.

The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cuscatancingo, Santa Tecla, Delgado (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 41 km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.7877° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9849° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, 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 2017-09-24 00:29:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-24 00:53:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 298 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 0.82 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us2000atre Id of event.
Event Code 2000atre An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000atre, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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