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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Acajutla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on November 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0888S, -90.3323WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. The temblor was reported at 18:36:11 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -90.3323° West, latitude 13.0888° North, depth = 17.77 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/18 / 2018-11-01 00:36:11 / November 1, 2018 @ 12:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hp7g. Unique identifier: us1000hp7g. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.77 km (11 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acajutla (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 78 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.3323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0888° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km SW of Acajutla, 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 2018-11-01 00:36:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-23 01:19:42 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 271 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 1.225 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us1000hp7g Id of event.
Event Code 1000hp7g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hp7g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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