A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 21:00:01 / September 29, 2019 @ 9:00 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005nlt. Unique identifier: us70005nlt. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:00:01 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.2478 West, latitude 12.8986 North, depth = 10 km.
Epicenter of the event was 107 km (67 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from San Antonio del Monte (c. 9 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sonsonate, San Antonio del Monte, Acajutla. Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 89 km SSW of Acajutla, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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