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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Acajutla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on September 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2486S, -89.8946WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. Exact location, longitude -89.8946° West, latitude 13.2486° North, depth = 51.982 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 20:18:56 / September 15, 2024 @ 8:18 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000ne49. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ne49. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.982 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 20:18:56 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Tomás, Ayutuxtepeque, Mejicanos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 38 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.8946° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2486° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.982 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 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 20:18:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-16 13:57:42 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 271 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.592 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us7000ne49 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ne49 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ne49, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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