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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Chirilagua in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.7509S, -88.3187WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Chirilagua in El Salvador on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.11 km (42 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 15:17:26 / May 2, 2018 @ 3:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dvx9. Unique identifier: us1000dvx9. Exact location of event, depth 68.11 km, -88.3187° West, 12.7509° North. The temblor was picked up at 09:17:26 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nueva Guadalupe, Berlín, Jucuapa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santiago de María (c. 15 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

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 five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 55 km SSW of Chirilagua, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.3187° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.7509° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km SSW of Chirilagua, 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 2018-05-02 15:17:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-02 23:04:48 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 1.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us1000dvx9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dvx9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dvx9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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