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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.4413S, -88.6775WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. The temblor was reported at 03:07:29 / 3:07 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: us1000i12y. Id of event: us1000i12y. The epicenter was at a depth of 41.46 km (26 miles). Global time and date of event 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 09:07:29 / December 3, 2018 @ 9:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.6775 West, latitude 12.4413 North, depth = 41.46 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto El Triunfo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 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 two and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 94 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.6775° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.4413° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km 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 2018-12-03 09:07:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-03 13:22:03 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 312 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 1.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us1000i12y Id of event.
Event Code 1000i12y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i12y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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