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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 39 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador

Posted by admin on August 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2408S, -89.8666WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.8666 West, latitude 13.2408 North, depth = 53.77 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000gb0m. Event ids that are associated: us1000gb0m. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.77 km (33 miles). Global time and date of event 17/08/18 / 2018-08-17 00:03:39 / August 17, 2018 @ 12:03 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:03:39 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Delgado, Cuscatancingo, Quezaltepeque (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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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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. 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: 39 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.8666° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2408° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km S 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 2018-08-17 00:03:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-17 00:23:18 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 284 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 0.76 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us1000gb0m Id of event.
Event Code 1000gb0m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gb0m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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