A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000kanj. Id of event: us2000kanj. The temblor was reported at 03:08:17 / 3:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.14 km (30 miles). Exact location, longitude -89.6438° West, latitude 13.24° North, depth = 48.14 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/04/19 / 2019-04-05 09:08:17 / April 5, 2019 @ 9:08 am.
Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguilares, Cojutepeque, Zacatecoluca. Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 43 km SSE of Acajutla, El Salvador.
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