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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Intipuca in El Salvador

Posted by admin on March 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.8932S, -88.0041WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Intipuca in El Salvador on Monday. Event id: us60008f57. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008f57. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:22:55 / 3:22 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/20 / 2020-03-09 21:22:55 / March 9, 2020 @ 9:22 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.9 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -88.0041° West, latitude 12.8932° North, depth = 71.9 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (43 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nacaome, Puerto Morazán, San Francisco (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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 34 km S of Intipuca, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.0041° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8932° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km S of Intipuca, 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 2020-03-09 21:22:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-16 05:13:28 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 284 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 0.978 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us60008f57 Id of event.
Event Code 60008f57 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008f57, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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