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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Jiquilisco in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.9619S, -88.9848WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Jiquilisco in El Salvador. Unique identifier: us100079zw. Ids that are associated to the event: us100079zw. 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 44.96 km (28 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/16 / 2016-11-15 07:36:38 / November 15, 2016 @ 7:36 am. Exact location of event, longitude -88.9848 West, latitude 12.9619 North, depth = 44.96 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:36:38 / 1:36 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Martín, Chinameca, Ayutuxtepeque. Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 58 km SW of Jiquilisco, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.9848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9619° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km SW of Jiquilisco, 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 2016-11-15 07:36:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-29 12:33:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 259 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 0.759 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us100079zw Id of event.
Event Code 100079zw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100079zw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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