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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on May 2, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0095S, -88.72WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:50:33 / 5:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/16 / 2016-05-02 11:50:33 / May 2, 2016 @ 11:50 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10005d03. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005d03. Exact location, longitude -88.72° West, latitude 13.0095° North, depth = 74.68 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.68 km (46 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ciudad Barrios, Ayutuxtepeque, Mejicanos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.72° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0095° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, 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 2016-05-02 11:50:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-02 12:08:48 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 354 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 0.837 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005d03 Id of event.
Event Code 10005d03 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005d03, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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