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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Acajutla in El Salvador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 06:54:33 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -89.9468° West, latitude 13.1363° North, depth = 52.418 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.418 km (33 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/10/24 / 2024-10-26 06:54:33 / October 26, 2024 @ 6:54 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000nnaf. Event ids that are associated: us7000nnaf.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ahuachapán (c. 34 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Izalco (c. 19 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sonzacate (c. 15 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ahuachapán, Zaragoza, Tacuba (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty 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: 52 km SSW of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.9468° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.1363° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.418 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52 km SSW 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	2024-10-26 06:54:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-26 07:33:41	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	246	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.707	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	195	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	us7000nnaf	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nnaf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nnaf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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