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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 81 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.0845S, -90.3727WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 11:13:18 / 11:13 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h4pt. Id of event: us1000h4pt. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/09/18 / 2018-09-30 17:13:18 / September 30, 2018 @ 5:13 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.3727 West, latitude 13.0845 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acajutla (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 81 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 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.3727° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0845° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km 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 2018-09-30 17:13:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-30 19:52:02 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 312 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 1.261 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 us1000h4pt Id of event.
Event Code 1000h4pt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h4pt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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