A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Intipuca in El Salvador on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.1565 West, latitude 12.4931 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:03:57 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us60006a8e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006a8e. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/19 / 2019-11-11 16:03:57 / November 11, 2019 @ 4:03 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto El Triunfo, El Tránsito, Chirilagua. Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from El Tránsito (c. 9 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Chirilagua (c. 6 400 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 78 km S of Intipuca, El Salvador.
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