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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.3152S, -88.5079WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 107 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador (66 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005l5h. Id of event: us20005l5h. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/04/16 / 2016-04-23 08:27:30 / April 23, 2016 @ 8:27 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -88.5079 West, latitude 12.3152 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 02:27:30 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 107 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.5079° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.3152° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107km 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 2016-04-23 08:27:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-12 10:58:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 259 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 1.473 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us20005l5h Id of event.
Event Code 20005l5h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005l5h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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