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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 80 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.001S, -90.2614WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 05:43:32 / 5:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 11:43:32 / February 16, 2018 @ 11:43 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.85 km (18 miles). Unique identifier: us2000d364. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d364. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 28.85 km, -90.2614° West, 13.001° North.

Epicenter of the event was 99 km (61 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Sonzacate (c. 15 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from San Antonio del Monte (c. 9 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sonzacate, Sonsonate, San Antonio del Monte (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 80 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.2614° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km SW of Acajutla, 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 2018-02-16 11:43:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 12:17:06 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 369 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 1.212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us2000d364 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d364 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d364, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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