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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 4 km ENE of Intipuca, El Salvador

Posted by admin on May 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2086S, -88.0141WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Intipuca in El Salvador on Sunday. Event id: us1000dzap. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dzap. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -88.0141° West, 13.2086° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 12:37:58 / May 6, 2018 @ 12:37 pm. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:37:58 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santiago Nonualco, San Sebastián, Marcala (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 4 km ENE of Intipuca, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.0141° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ENE of Intipuca, 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 2018-05-06 12:37:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-06 12:57:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 417 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 1.069 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dzap Id of event.
Event Code 1000dzap An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dzap, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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