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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Acajutla in El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.1845S, -89.8242WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:16:08 / 5:16 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 05:16:08 / September 15, 2024 @ 5:16 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ndxj. Unique identifier: us7000ndxj. 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 56.752 km (35 miles). Exact location of event, depth 56.752 km, -89.8242° West, 13.1845° North.

Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moyuta, Apopa, Ilopango (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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. 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: 45 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.8242° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1845° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.752 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45 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 05:16:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-15 06:56:09 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 340 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 221 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.593 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us7000ndxj Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndxj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndxj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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