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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 46 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador

Posted by admin on September 15, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.1729S, -89.8703WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Sunday. Global time and date of event 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 02:00:16 / September 15, 2024 @ 2:00 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:00:16 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.8703 West, latitude 13.1729 North, depth = 45.523 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.523 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ndvl. Unique identifier: us7000ndvl.

Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Rosario, Quezaltepeque, Delgado (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 46 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.8703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1729° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.523 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km S 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 2024-09-15 02:00:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-15 02:21:12 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 326 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.63 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us7000ndvl Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndvl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndvl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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