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

Posted by admin on October 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.6498S, -88.0396WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Jocoro in El Salvador. The temblor was picked up at 07:55:15 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/10/20 / 2020-10-22 07:55:15 / October 22, 2020 @ 7:55 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 239.62 km (149 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000cb7w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cb7w. Exact location of event, depth 239.62 km, -88.0396° West, 13.6498° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jesús de Otoro, Zacatecoluca, Ajuterique. Epicenter of the event was 24 km (15 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km NW of Jocoro, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.0396° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6498° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 239.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NW of Jocoro, 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 2020-10-22 07:55:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-28 14:30:11 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 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 0.847 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us6000cb7w Id of event.
Event Code 6000cb7w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cb7w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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