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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 64 km SSW of Acajutla, El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.0526S, -90.0626WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -90.0626° West, latitude 13.0526° North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us100036am. Event ids that are associated: us100036am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:44:39 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/08/15 / 2015-08-31 13:44:39 / August 31, 2015 @ 1:44 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nahuizalco, Izalco, Sonzacate. The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Izalco (c. 19 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sonzacate (c. 15 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Antonio del Monte (c. 9 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nahuizalco (c. 7 400 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 64 km SSW of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.0626° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2015-08-31 13:44:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-31 16:41:06 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 284 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 1.025 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us100036am Id of event.
Event Code 100036am An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100036am, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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