A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.2682 West, latitude 12.9687 North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 07:55:12 / April 12, 2019 @ 7:55 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:55:12 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us700034ud. Unique identifier: us700034ud. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Acajutla.
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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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