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Moderate earthquake 5.9 mag, 24 km S of La Libertad, El Salvador

Posted by admin on July 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2662S, -89.3376WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.5 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -89.3376 West, latitude 13.2662 North, depth = 72.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/07/19 / 2019-07-31 05:54:55 / July 31, 2019 @ 5:54 am. Unique identifier: us60004xtc. Ids that are associated to the event: us60004xtc. The temblor was picked up at 23:54:55 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Metapán, Moyuta, Nueva Guadalupe. Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 24 km S of La Libertad, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.3376° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km S 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 2019-07-31 05:54:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 06:08:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.651 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 539 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 1.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us60004xtc Id of event.
Event Code 60004xtc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004xtc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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