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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near San Alejo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on May 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.3292S, -87.9725WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from San Alejo in El Salvador on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -87.9725° West, latitude 13.3292° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e133. Id of event: us1000e133. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/18 / 2018-05-08 23:07:33 / May 8, 2018 @ 11:07 pm. The temblor was reported at 17:07:33 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zacatecoluca, San Vicente, Apastepeque.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 11 km S of San Alejo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.9725° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3292° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of San Alejo, 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 2018-05-08 23:07:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-08 23:32:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 340 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 0.992 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us1000e133 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e133 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e133, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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