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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Conchagua in El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.2824S, -87.9446WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Conchagua in El Salvador on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 06:44:28 / 6:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 12:44:28 / May 6, 2018 @ 12:44 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000dzau. Event ids that are associated: us1000dzau. Exact location of event, longitude -87.9446 West, latitude 13.2824 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Triunfo, Zacatecoluca, San Vicente. Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km WSW of Conchagua, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.9446° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2824° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km WSW of Conchagua, 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 12:44:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-06 13:16:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 416 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 1.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dzau Id of event.
Event Code 1000dzau An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dzau, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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