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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Jucuarán in El Salvador

Posted by admin on February 10, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.9485S, -88.4204WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Jucuarán in El Salvador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:47:40 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 91.57 km, -88.4204° West, 12.9485° North. Id of earthquake: us6000dg5d. Event ids that are associated: us6000dg5d. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/02/21 / 2021-02-10 08:47:40 / February 10, 2021 @ 8:47 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91.57 km (57 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Olocuilta, Cojutepeque, San Sebastián.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 38 km SSW of Jucuarán, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.4204° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km SSW of Jucuarán, 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 2021-02-10 08:47:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-10 09:18:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 386 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 1.387 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us6000dg5d Id of event.
Event Code 6000dg5d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dg5d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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