Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 48 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Exact location of event, longitude -88.521 West, latitude 12.8438 North, depth = 56.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:14:18 / 8:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.07 km (35 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/17 / 2017-11-26 14:14:18 / November 26, 2017 @ 2:14 pm. Unique identifier: us2000buht. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000buht.

Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guatajiagua, Apastepeque, San Vicente.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Apastepeque El Salvador Guatajiagua La Unión Puerto El Triunfo San Miguel San Rafael Oriente San Vicente Usulután Zacatecoluca

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.521° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.8438° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	56.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km 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 14:14:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-26 14:41:37	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	355	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	1.086	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us2000buht	Id of event.
Event Code	2000buht	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000buht,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.8 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.521° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.8438° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

56.07 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

48km 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 14:14:18

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-11-26 14:41:37

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

355

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

1.086

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

Root Mean Square

0.81 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

134

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

us2000buht

Id of event.

Event Code

2000buht

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

Event IDS

,us2000buht,

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

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