Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag has occurred near La Libertad in El Salvador

A earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador. A tsunami warning has been issued near La Libertad in El Salvador (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -89.2719 West, latitude 13.2428 North, depth = 65.08 km. Global time and date of event 30/05/19 / 2019-05-30 09:03:32 / May 30, 2019 @ 9:03 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00psb7tv, pt19150000, us70003t2n. Id of event: us70003t2n. The temblor was picked up at 03:03:32 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 65.08 km (40 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jutiapa, San Marcos, Nueva Ocotepeque (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 121 km (75 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 27 km SSE of La Libertad, El Salvador.

Apopa Delgado El Salvador Jutiapa La Libertad Mejicanos Nueva Ocotepeque San Marcos San Miguel San Salvador Santa Ana Santa Tecla Sonsonate Soyapango

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.2719° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.2428° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SSE of La Libertad, 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	2019-05-30 09:03:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-30 09:21:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	104	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.1	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	1	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	734	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	,at,pt,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	1.152	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70003t2n	Id of event.
Event Code	70003t2n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00psb7tv,pt19150000,us70003t2n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

6.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-89.2719° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.2428° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

65.08 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

27km SSE of La Libertad, 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

2019-05-30 09:03:32

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-05-30 09:21:05

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-360

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

104

The total number of felt reports

CDI

6.1

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

734

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

,at,pt,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

1.152

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

Root Mean Square

1.28 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

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

Magnitude Type

mww

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

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70003t2n

Id of event.

Event Code

70003t2n

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

Event IDS

,at00psb7tv,pt19150000,us70003t2n,

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

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