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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

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Earthquake location 12.9856S, -88.6477WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/12/16 / 2016-12-27 05:14:24 / December 27, 2016 @ 5:14 am. The temblor was detected at 23:14:24 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007mz5. Id of event: us10007mz5. 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 71.53 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -88.6477° West, 12.9856° North, depth 71.53 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sensuntepeque, San Salvador, Soyapango (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 34 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.6477° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9856° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSW 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 2016-12-27 05:14:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-03 00:44:18 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 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 326 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 0.899 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007mz5 Id of event.
Event Code 10007mz5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007mz5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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