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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

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Earthquake location 12.6848S, -88.7635WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/06/20 / 2020-06-01 01:00:33 / June 1, 2020 @ 1:00 am. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:00:33 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -88.7635° West, 12.6848° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a3e1. Id of event: us6000a3e1.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jucuapa, Chinameca, El Rosario (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (51 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Santiago de María (c. 15 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Berlín (c. 11 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Jucuapa (c. 10 600 pop).

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 fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 70 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.7635° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 km 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 2020-06-01 01:00:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-01 01:41:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 355 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 1.7 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 238 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 us6000a3e1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000a3e1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a3e1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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