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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near San Francisco Menendez in El Salvador

Posted by admin on June 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.568S, -90.332WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from San Francisco Menendez in El Salvador on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 73 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -90.332° West, latitude 13.568° North, depth = 73 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/05/16 / 2016-05-24 07:55:47 / May 24, 2016 @ 7:55 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 01:55:47 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us200061n3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200061n3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Masagua, Chalchuapa, Barberena. Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ahuachapán (c. 34 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Chalchuapa (c. 32 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Barberena (c. 30 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Izalco (c. 19 200 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 45 km SW of San Francisco Menendez, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.332° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2016-05-24 07:55:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-07 06:38:05 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200061n3 Id of event.
Event Code 200061n3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200061n3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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