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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Acajutla in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.8657S, -89.8332WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005tt1. Unique identifier: us70005tt1. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:53:15 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -89.8332° West, 12.8657° North, depth 53.41 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.41 km (33 miles). Global time and date of event 13/10/19 / 2019-10-13 02:53:15 / October 13, 2019 @ 2:53 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Libertad, Acajutla (min 5000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 80 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.8332° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km S 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 2019-10-13 02:53:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-13 03:12:53 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 1.591 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 us70005tt1 Id of event.
Event Code 70005tt1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005tt1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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