Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Intipuca in El Salvador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Intipuca in El Salvador. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 88.02 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 04:51:20 / 4:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.0114 West, latitude 12.9229 North, depth = 88.02 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000gci3. Unique identifier: us2000gci3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 10:51:20 / July 24, 2018 @ 10:51 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Realejo, Chinandega, Ciudad Choluteca (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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km S of Intipuca, El Salvador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.0114° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.9229° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	88.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km S 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	2018-07-24 10:51:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-24 12:15:50	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	2	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	355	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	0.964	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000gci3	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gci3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gci3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.8 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.0114° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.9229° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

88.02 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

30km S 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

2018-07-24 10:51:20

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-07-24 12:15:50

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

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

355

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.964

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.41 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

134

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mwr

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000gci3

Id of event.

Event Code

2000gci3

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us2000gci3,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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