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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.112S, -88.6664WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 14:08:01 / May 8, 2020 @ 2:08 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -88.6664 West, latitude 13.112 North, depth = 81.57 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:08:01 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70009cdh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009cdh. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 81.57 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Unión, Mejicanos, Ayutuxtepeque (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 22 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.6664° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.112° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSW 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 2020-05-08 14:08:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 14:42:57 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 298 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 1.446 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us70009cdh Id of event.
Event Code 70009cdh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009cdh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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