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Strong earthquake: M6.1 quake has struck near La Libertad in El Salvador

Posted by admin on August 28, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.998S, -89.5623WA earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.882 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/08/24 / 2024-08-28 21:57:56 / August 28, 2024 @ 9:57 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -89.5623° West, 12.998° North, depth 33.882 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nncs. Id of event: us6000nncs. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:57:56 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Suchitoto, Puerto El Triunfo, Aguilares. Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 60 km SSW of La Libertad, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.5623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.882 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60 km SSW of La Libertad, 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 2024-08-28 21:57:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-28 22:12:06 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 4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.821 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 574 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 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.662 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nncs Id of event.
Event Code 6000nncs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nncs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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