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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Intipuca in El Salvador

Posted by admin on May 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.3033S, -88.0037WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Intipuca in El Salvador on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 15:02:11 / May 6, 2018 @ 3:02 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000dzd2. Event ids that are associated: us1000dzd2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:02:11 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -88.0037° West, latitude 13.3033° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Marcala, San Vicente, Apastepeque. Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NNE of Intipuca, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.0037° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3033° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNE 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 15:02:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-06 18:15:44 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 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 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 1.032 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us1000dzd2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dzd2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dzd2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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