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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Acajutla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on March 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.8855S, -89.9681WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d6e9. Id of event: us1000d6e9. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 14:05:33 / March 19, 2018 @ 2:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -89.9681 West, latitude 12.8855 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:05:33 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Acajutla. Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 79 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.9681° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8855° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km S 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 2018-03-19 14:05:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-19 14:38:01 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 1.071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us1000d6e9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d6e9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d6e9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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