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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near San Francisco Menendez in El Salvador

Posted by admin on July 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.7118S, -90.1954WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from San Francisco Menendez in El Salvador. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:01:03 / 6:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20002ynh. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002ynh. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/07/15 / 2015-07-20 12:01:03 / July 20, 2015 @ 12:01 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 70.56 km (44 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -90.1954° West, 13.7118° North, depth 70.56 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monjas, Palín, Villa Canales (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Jutiapa (c. 34 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Ahuachapán (c. 34 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SW of San Francisco Menendez, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.1954° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7118° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SW of San Francisco Menendez, 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 2015-07-20 12:01:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-20 12:28:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 298 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.937 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us20002ynh Id of event.
Event Code 20002ynh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002ynh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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