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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Acajutla in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.8986S, -90.2478WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. 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: 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 21:00:01 / September 29, 2019 @ 9:00 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005nlt. Unique identifier: us70005nlt. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:00:01 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.2478 West, latitude 12.8986 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 107 km (67 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from San Antonio del Monte (c. 9 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sonsonate, San Antonio del Monte, Acajutla. Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 89 km SSW of Acajutla, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.2478° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km 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 21:00:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-29 21:20:44 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 416 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 1.722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us70005nlt Id of event.
Event Code 70005nlt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005nlt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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