Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.6023 West, latitude 13.0191 North, depth = 67.01 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67.01 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:14:21 / 2:14 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006cb7. Unique identifier: us10006cb7. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/16 / 2016-08-05 08:14:21 / August 5, 2016 @ 8:14 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Martín (c. 39 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Francisco, San Martín, Panchimalco.

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 eight and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 29 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

Cojutepeque El Salvador Panchimalco Puerto El Triunfo San Francisco San Martin San Miguel San Vicente Usulután Zacatecoluca

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.6023° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.0191° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	67.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km 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	2016-08-05 08:14:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-28 06:11:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	0.903	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	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	us10006cb7	Id of event.
Event Code	10006cb7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006cb7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.6023° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.0191° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

67.01 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

29km 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

2016-08-05 08:14:21

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-08-28 06:11:42

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-360

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

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

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

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

0.903

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.79 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

151

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10006cb7

Id of event.

Event Code

10006cb7

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10006cb7,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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