Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:24:42 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/17 / 2017-11-26 10:24:42 / November 26, 2017 @ 10:24 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -88.6351 West, latitude 12.7392 North, depth = 53.06 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.06 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bugv. Unique identifier: us2000bugv.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Rosario, Nueva Guadalupe, Santiago Nonualco. Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Santiago de María (c. 15 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Berlín (c. 11 300 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Berlin El Rosario El Salvador Nueva Guadalupe Puerto El Triunfo San Rafael Oriente Santiago de María Santiago Nonualco Usulután Zacatecoluca

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.6351° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.7392° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	53.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km 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	2017-11-26 10:24:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-26 10:35:08	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	298	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	1.106	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	164	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	us2000bugv	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bugv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bugv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.4 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.6351° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.7392° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

53.06 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

60km 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

2017-11-26 10:24:42

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-11-26 10:35:08

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

298

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

1.106

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

Root Mean Square

0.72 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

164

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

us2000bugv

Id of event.

Event Code

2000bugv

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

Event IDS

,us2000bugv,

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

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