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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 4 km NNE of Santiago de María, El Salvador

Posted by admin on July 26, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.5155S, -88.4498WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Santiago de María in El Salvador. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:15:30 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/24 / 2024-07-26 23:15:30 / July 26, 2024 @ 11:15 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ng9n. Unique identifier: us6000ng9n. Exact location of event, depth 173.959 km, -88.4498° West, 13.5155° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 173.959 km (108 miles).

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quezaltepeque, La Libertad, Intibucá. Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km NNE of Santiago de María, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.4498° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5155° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173.959 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NNE of Santiago de María, 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 2024-07-26 23:15:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-26 23:43:58 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 312 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 128 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us6000ng9n Id of event.
Event Code 6000ng9n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ng9n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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