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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near La Libertad in El Salvador

Posted by admin on November 15, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.1985S, -89.4766WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/11/15 / 2015-11-15 04:56:20 / November 15, 2015 @ 4:56 am. The temblor was reported at 22:56:20 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 52.29 km (32 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003yge. Unique identifier: us10003yge. Exact location of event, longitude -89.4766 West, latitude 13.1985 North, depth = 52.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suchitoto, Tacuba, Atiquizaya (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km SSW of La Libertad, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.4766° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km SSW 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 2015-11-15 04:56:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-15 05:16:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 0.54 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us10003yge Id of event.
Event Code 10003yge An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yge, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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