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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Intipuca in El Salvador

Posted by admin on June 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2528S, -87.9803WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Intipuca in El Salvador on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 13:35:05 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 19:35:05 / May 30, 2018 @ 7:35 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -87.9803° West, 13.2528° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000ef1k. Event ids that are associated: us1000ef1k.

Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciudad Choluteca, Monjarás, Berlín. Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 10 km NE of Intipuca, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.9803° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2528° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NE 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 2018-05-30 19:35:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-18 17:57:48 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 4.1 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 285 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 1.054 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us1000ef1k Id of event.
Event Code 1000ef1k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ef1k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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