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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near La Libertad in El Salvador

Posted by admin on January 3, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2266S, -89.2639WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us1000bzb5. Event ids that are associated: us1000bzb5. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:38:40 / 7:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.83 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 03/01/18 / 2018-01-03 13:38:40 / January 3, 2018 @ 1:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -89.2639° West, 13.2266° North, depth 79.83 km.

The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nueva Guadalupe, Tacuba, Chinameca (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

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-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km SSE of La Libertad, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.2639° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2266° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSE of La Libertad, 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 2018-01-03 13:38:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-03 13:57:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 407 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 0.458 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000bzb5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bzb5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bzb5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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