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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Candelaria de La Frontera in El Salvador

Posted by admin on April 29, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.0661S, -89.6707WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Candelaria de La Frontera in El Salvador on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.6707 West, latitude 14.0661 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 11:19:27 / 11:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000duck. Event ids that are associated: us1000duck. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/18 / 2018-04-29 17:19:27 / April 29, 2018 @ 5:19 pm.

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cojutepeque, San Martín, San Marcos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight 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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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. 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: 6 km SSW of Candelaria de La Frontera, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.6707° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW of Candelaria de La Frontera, 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 2018-04-29 17:19:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-29 19:30:46 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 4.8 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 285 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 0.447 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us1000duck Id of event.
Event Code 1000duck An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000duck, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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