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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Acajutla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on September 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0108S, -89.9682WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 14:25:16 / 2:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -89.9682° West, latitude 13.0108° North, depth = 60.84 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 20:25:16 / September 29, 2019 @ 8:25 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.84 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70005nlq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005nlq.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nahuizalco, La Libertad, Izalco (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Izalco (c. 19 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sonzacate (c. 15 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Antonio del Monte (c. 9 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km SSW of Acajutla, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.9682° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0108° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km SSW of Acajutla, 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 2019-09-29 20:25:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-29 21:05:55 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 1.5 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 us70005nlq Id of event.
Event Code 70005nlq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005nlq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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