A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 127 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador (79 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/02/18 / 2018-02-12 05:29:09 / February 12, 2018 @ 5:29 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.8995 West, latitude 12.1846 North, depth = 50.95 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000d0t8. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d0t8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.95 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 23:29:09 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 127 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.
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