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

Posted by admin on December 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0177S, -90.2655WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000cpab. Event ids that are associated: us7000cpab. Global time and date of event 08/12/20 / 2020-12-08 22:39:03 / December 8, 2020 @ 10:39 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -90.2655° West, 13.0177° North, depth 47.75 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.75 km (30 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:39:03 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 80 km (49 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acajutla (min 5000 pop).

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 thirty 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 79 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.2655° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0177° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km SW 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 2020-12-08 22:39:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-08 23:16:07 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 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 1.63 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us7000cpab Id of event.
Event Code 7000cpab An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cpab, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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