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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Chirilagua in El Salvador

Posted by admin on May 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2037S, -88.1154WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Chirilagua in El Salvador. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 14:52:54 / May 6, 2018 @ 2:52 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000dzcv. Event ids that are associated: us1000dzcv. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.1154 West, latitude 13.2037 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:52:54 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciudad Choluteca, San Sebastián, Santiago Nonualco (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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: 3 km SE of Chirilagua, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.1154° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2037° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SE 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 2018-05-06 14:52:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-06 16:15:27 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 358 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 1.154 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us1000dzcv Id of event.
Event Code 1000dzcv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dzcv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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