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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on August 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0601S, -88.6709WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7am. Id of event: us7000n7am. The epicenter was at a depth of 74.681 km (46 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:45:52 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/08/24 / 2024-08-15 22:45:52 / August 15, 2024 @ 10:45 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.6709 West, latitude 13.0601 North, depth = 74.681 km.

Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Unión, San Francisco, Tonacatepeque (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop).

Every 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. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 27 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.6709° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0601° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.681 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, 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 2024-08-15 22:45:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-16 02:41:31 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.529 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us7000n7am Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7am An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7am, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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