Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 44 km WSW of Acajutla, El Salvador

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Thursday. Global time and date of event 18/04/24 / 2024-04-18 17:18:04 / April 18, 2024 @ 5:18 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -90.2127 West, latitude 13.4533 North, depth = 47.047 km. Id of earthquake: us7000mcz6. Event ids that are associated: us7000mcz6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 47.047 km (29 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:18:04 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ahuachapán (c. 34 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Chalchuapa (c. 32 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Izalco (c. 19 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciudad Arce, Coatepeque, Santa Ana (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 44 km WSW of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.2127° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.4533° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.047 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km WSW 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	2024-04-18 17:18:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-28 14:39:14	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.613	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	189	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	us7000mcz6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mcz6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mcz6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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