Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.78 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.7913 West, latitude 13.0545 North, depth = 71.78 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:00:51 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ddpb. Id of event: us1000ddpb. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/04/18 / 2018-04-03 16:00:51 / April 3, 2018 @ 4:00 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quezaltepeque, Guazapa, San Alejo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.7913° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.0545° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	71.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km SW 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	2018-04-03 16:00:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-03 16:28:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.8	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	356	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	0.76	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 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	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000ddpb	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ddpb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ddpb,	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

-88.7913° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.0545° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

71.78 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

36km SW 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

2018-04-03 16:00:51

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-04-03 16:28:18

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

Timezone offset

-360

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

2.8

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

356

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

0.76

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

Root Mean Square

0.87 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

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

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000ddpb

Id of event.

Event Code

1000ddpb

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

Event IDS

,us1000ddpb,

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

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