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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on July 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0056S, -88.6517WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 76.59 km, -88.6517° West, 13.0056° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 76.59 km (48 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:25:22 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000an8y. Event ids that are associated: us7000an8y. Global time and date of event 14/07/20 / 2020-07-14 08:25:22 / July 14, 2020 @ 8:25 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Antiguo Cuscatlán, Delgado, San Francisco.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 32 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.6517° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0056° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, 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 2020-07-14 08:25:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-14 08:39:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 326 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 1.546 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us7000an8y Id of event.
Event Code 7000an8y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000an8y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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