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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Intipuca in El Salvador

Posted by admin on July 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.6255S, -88.1767WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Intipuca in El Salvador. Exact location, longitude -88.1767° West, latitude 12.6255° North, depth = 50.97 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.97 km (32 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:42:03 / 2:42 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/18 / 2018-07-27 20:42:03 / July 27, 2018 @ 8:42 pm. Unique identifier: us2000gfiz. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000gfiz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Santiago de María (c. 15 000 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Berlín (c. 11 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monjarás, Berlín, Nueva Guadalupe (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km SSW of Intipuca, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.1767° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6255° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km SSW 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 2018-07-27 20:42:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-27 21:03:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 433 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 1.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us2000gfiz Id of event.
Event Code 2000gfiz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gfiz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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