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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near La Libertad in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.7759S, -89.4209WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador. Unique identifier: us10008vh0. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008vh0. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/05/17 / 2017-05-26 15:01:55 / May 26, 2017 @ 3:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:01:55 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 59.54 km (37 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -89.4209° West, 12.7759° North, depth 59.54 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Zaragoza (c. 11 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Santiago Nonualco (c. 9 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Panchimalco (c. 6 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Olocuilta (c. 6 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from El Rosario (c. 5 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Rosario de Mora (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santiago Nonualco, Panchimalco, Olocuilta (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 79 km S of La Libertad, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.4209° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.7759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km S of La Libertad, 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 2017-05-26 15:01:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-26 15:20:38 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 326 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 0.924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us10008vh0 Id of event.
Event Code 10008vh0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008vh0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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