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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 2 km NNW of Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.6933S, -89.249WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Antiguo Cuscatlan in El Salvador on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.38 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -89.249 West, latitude 13.6933 North, depth = 4.38 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008gdm. Id of event: us10008gdm. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:02:04 / 2:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/04/17 / 2017-04-10 20:02:04 / April 10, 2017 @ 8:02 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Marcos, Jiquilisco, Nueva Ocotepeque (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 7 km (4 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km NNW of Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.249° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6933° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNW of Antiguo Cuscatlan, 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 2017-04-10 20:02:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-10 23:10:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 17 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 207 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 0.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008gdm Id of event.
Event Code 10008gdm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008gdm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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