Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 83 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 11:27:57 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.7004 West, latitude 12.5434 North, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/16 / 2016-01-21 17:27:57 / January 21, 2016 @ 5:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10004g4c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004g4c.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Elena, El Tránsito, Chirilagua. The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from El Tránsito (c. 9 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Jiquilisco (c. 9 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Chirilagua (c. 6 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Santa Elena (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 83 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

Chirilagua El Salvador El Tránsito Jiquilisco Puerto El Triunfo Santa Elena Usulután

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.7004° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.5434° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	83km S of Puerto El Triunfo, 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	2016-01-21 17:27:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-12 00:10:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	1.618	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165	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	us10004g4c	Id of event.
Event Code	10004g4c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004g4c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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