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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Ilopango in El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.7366S, -89.0523WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ilopango in El Salvador on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nykd. Unique identifier: us6000nykd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 187.37 km (116 miles). Exact location of event, depth 187.37 km, -89.0523° West, 13.7366° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:08:12 / 1:08 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/10/24 / 2024-10-14 13:08:12 / October 14, 2024 @ 1:08 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacuba, Guatajiagua, Atescatempa (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (10 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop).

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

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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: 7 km ENE of Ilopango, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.0523° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7366° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 187.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km ENE of Ilopango, 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 2024-10-14 13:08:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-14 14:07:46 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 312 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 78 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.114 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 127 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 us6000nykd Id of event.
Event Code 6000nykd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nykd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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