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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on December 29, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.8705S, -88.5836WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Friday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:12:02 / 4:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -88.5836° West, 12.8705° North, depth 62.42 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.42 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000bxyc. Event ids that are associated: us1000bxyc. Global time and date of event 29/12/17 / 2017-12-29 22:12:02 / December 29, 2017 @ 10:12 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Unión, San Alejo, Apastepeque (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.5836° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8705° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km S 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 2017-12-29 22:12:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-29 23:41:54 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 312 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 1.027 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us1000bxyc Id of event.
Event Code 1000bxyc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bxyc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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