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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on October 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.6581S, -89.1299WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000heup. Event ids that are associated: us1000heup. Global time and date of event 20/10/18 / 2018-10-20 03:57:58 / October 20, 2018 @ 3:57 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -89.1299° West, latitude 12.6581° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:57:58 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Jiquilisco (c. 9 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from El Rosario (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Libertad, Jiquilisco, El Rosario.

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.1299° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6581° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, 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 2018-10-20 03:57:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-20 04:41:46 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 298 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 1.027 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us1000heup Id of event.
Event Code 1000heup An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000heup, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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