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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Conchagua in El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.2405S, -87.8363WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Conchagua in El Salvador. The temblor was reported at 09:35:16 / 9:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -87.8363° West, 13.2405° North, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000hdfj. Event ids that are associated: us2000hdfj. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/09/18 / 2018-09-12 15:35:16 / September 12, 2018 @ 3:35 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Viejo, El Triunfo, Puerto Morazán (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km SSE of Conchagua, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.8363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2405° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of Conchagua, 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 2018-09-12 15:35:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-12 23:01:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 340 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 0.938 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us2000hdfj Id of event.
Event Code 2000hdfj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hdfj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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