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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 69 km SSW of Chirilagua, El Salvador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Chirilagua in El Salvador on Saturday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:26:26 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -88.2825° West, latitude 12.6078° North, depth = 50.384 km. Global time and date of event 13/07/24 / 2024-07-13 18:26:26 / July 13, 2024 @ 6:26 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000mz39. Event ids that are associated: us7000mz39. The epicenter was at a depth of 50.384 km (31 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Elena, San Rafael Oriente, Jiquilisco (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (53 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from El Tránsito (c. 9 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Jiquilisco (c. 9 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Chirilagua (c. 6 400 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km SSW of Chirilagua, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Chirilagua El Salvador El Tránsito Jiquilisco Puerto El Triunfo San Rafael Oriente Santa Elena Usulután

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.2825° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.6078° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.384 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69 km SSW of Chirilagua, 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	2024-07-13 18:26:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-13 22:11:37	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	259	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.857	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	171	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	us7000mz39	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mz39	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mz39,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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