Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -88.5329° West, latitude 12.9316° North, depth = 71.38 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:35:07 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/11/19 / 2019-11-12 21:35:07 / November 12, 2019 @ 9:35 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006av9. Id of event: us60006av9. The epicenter was at a depth of 71.38 km (44 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ilopango, La Libertad, Sensuntepeque (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from San Martín (c. 39 400 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Ilopango (c. 38 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Cojutepeque El Salvador Ilopango La Libertad Puerto El Triunfo San Martin San Miguel San Vicente Sensuntepeque Usulután Zacatecoluca

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.5329° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.9316° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	71.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km 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	2019-11-12 21:35:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-12 21:54:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	401	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	1.493	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us60006av9	Id of event.
Event Code	60006av9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60006av9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.1 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.5329° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.9316° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

71.38 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

38km 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

2019-11-12 21:35:07

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-11-12 21:54:32

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

4.3

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

401

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

1.493

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

Root Mean Square

0.83 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

109

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

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

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us60006av9

Id of event.

Event Code

60006av9

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

Event IDS

,us60006av9,

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

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