A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from La Libertad in El Salvador. The temblor was reported at 20:58:14 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -89.4746 West, latitude 13.3058 North, depth = 54.07 km. Unique identifier: us1000hwbn. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hwbn. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.07 km (34 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/18 / 2018-11-24 02:58:14 / November 24, 2018 @ 2:58 am.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Suchitoto, Apastepeque, San Sebastián. Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 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 one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 26 km SW of La Libertad, El Salvador.
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