A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:00:56 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/19 / 2019-05-11 02:00:56 / May 11, 2019 @ 2:00 am. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -90.2363° West, 12.9162° North. Unique identifier: us70003jmg. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003jmg.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acajutla. Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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