Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near San Francisco Menendez in El Salvador

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from San Francisco Menendez in El Salvador on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:32:32 / 9:32 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us700035nx. Ids that are associated to the event: us700035nx. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 101.15 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -90.024° West, 13.7134° North, depth 101.15 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/04/19 / 2019-04-14 03:32:32 / April 14, 2019 @ 3:32 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fraijanes, Aguilares, Guazapa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 14 km S of San Francisco Menendez, El Salvador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.024° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7134° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km S of San Francisco Menendez, 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	2019-04-14 03:32:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-14 03:52:03	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	0.937	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	167	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	us700035nx	Id of event.
Event Code	700035nx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700035nx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.4 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-90.024° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.7134° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

101.15 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

14km S of San Francisco Menendez, 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

2019-04-14 03:32:32

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-04-14 03:52:03

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

298

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

0.937

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

Root Mean Square

1.15 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

167

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

Magnitude Type

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

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us700035nx

Id of event.

Event Code

700035nx

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

Event IDS

,us700035nx,

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

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