A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/06/18 / 2018-06-04 16:11:22 / June 4, 2018 @ 4:11 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 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -90.4181 West, latitude 13.141 North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: us1000eihm. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000eihm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:11:22 / 10:11 am (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Acajutla (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 81 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador.
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