Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Intipucá in El Salvador

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Intipucá in El Salvador. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/08/20 / 2020-08-12 03:25:12 / August 12, 2020 @ 3:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -88.2271 West, latitude 12.7053 North, depth = 53.78 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bd3b. Unique identifier: us6000bd3b. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:25:12 / 3:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.78 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Berlín, Nueva Guadalupe, Jucuapa. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santiago de María (c. 15 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Berlín (c. 11 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Berlin El Salvador Intipuca Jucuapa La Unión Nueva Guadalupe Puerto El Triunfo San Miguel San Rafael Oriente Santiago de María Usulután

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.2271° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.7053° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	53.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57 km SSW of Intipucá, 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	2020-08-12 03:25:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-12 03:44:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	370	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	1.177	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 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	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000bd3b	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bd3b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bd3b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.2271° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.7053° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

53.78 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

57 km SSW of Intipucá, 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

2020-08-12 03:25:12

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-08-12 03:44:38

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

3.8

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

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

370

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.177

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.27 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

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000bd3b

Id of event.

Event Code

6000bd3b

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000bd3b,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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