Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Intipuca in El Salvador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Intipuca in El Salvador. Exact location of event, longitude -87.9728 West, latitude 13.2531 North, depth = 13.05 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:37:51 / 8:37 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 14:37:51 / May 6, 2018 @ 2:37 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.05 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dzch. Id of event: us1000dzch.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop). Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciudad Choluteca, Berlín, Jiquilisco (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 10 km NE of Intipuca, El Salvador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-87.9728° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.2531° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NE of Intipuca, 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	2018-05-06 14:37:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-06 15:43:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	288	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	1.049	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us1000dzch	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dzch	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dzch,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-87.9728° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.2531° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

13.05 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

10km NE of Intipuca, 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

2018-05-06 14:37:51

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-05-06 15:43:16

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

3.8

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

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

288

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.049

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.85 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

147

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000dzch

Id of event.

Event Code

1000dzch

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000dzch,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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