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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near La Libertad in El Salvador

Posted by admin on August 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.8596S, -89.2314WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -89.2314° West, latitude 12.8596° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000ggcv. Event ids that are associated: us1000ggcv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/08/18 / 2018-08-23 22:42:23 / August 23, 2018 @ 10:42 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:42:23 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ilopango, San Salvador, Santa Tecla (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Ilopango (c. 38 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Antiguo Cuscatlán (c. 33 800 pop). Nearby 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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km S of La Libertad, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.2314° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 2018-08-23 22:42:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-24 05:27:18 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 298 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 0.822 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us1000ggcv Id of event.
Event Code 1000ggcv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ggcv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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