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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 34 km SSW of La Libertad, El Salvador

Posted by admin on September 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.1845S, -89.3949WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador on Sunday. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:25:47 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -89.3949° West, 13.1845° North, depth 75.266 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000ntl2. Event ids that are associated: us6000ntl2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.266 km (47 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/09/24 / 2024-09-22 02:25:47 / September 22, 2024 @ 2:25 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (38 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nueva Concepción, Santiago de María, Usulután (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 34 km SSW of La Libertad, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.3949° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1845° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.266 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 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 2024-09-22 02:25:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-22 02:44:01 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 400 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 93 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.47 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us6000ntl2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ntl2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntl2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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