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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Acajutla in El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.1015S, -89.9964WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. Exact location of earthquake, -89.9964° West, 13.1015° North, depth 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 30/09/19 / 2019-09-30 01:03:59 / September 30, 2019 @ 1:03 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:03:59 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005npp. Unique identifier: us70005npp.

The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Sonsonate (c. 59 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ahuachapán (c. 34 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Izalco (c. 19 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sonzacate (c. 15 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ahuachapán, Armenia, Tacuba. Close country/countries, 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 57 km SSW of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.9964° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km SSW 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 2019-09-30 01:03:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-30 02:52:24 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 284 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 2.643 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us70005npp Id of event.
Event Code 70005npp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005npp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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