Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.3 km (36 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:09:43 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000b3ia. Unique identifier: us6000b3ia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.9619 West, latitude 12.787 North, depth = 58.3 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 20/07/20 / 2020-07-20 19:09:43 / July 20, 2020 @ 7:09 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Berlín, Rosario de Mora, El Tránsito (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from La Libertad (c. 16 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Berlín (c. 11 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santiago Nonualco (c. 9 500 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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 SW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

Berlin El Salvador El Tránsito La Libertad Puerto El Triunfo Rosario de Mora Santiago Nonualco Usulután Zacatecoluca

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.9619° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.787° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70 km SW 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	2020-07-20 19:09:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-28 12:56:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	271	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	1.648	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	180	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	us6000b3ia	Id of event.
Event Code	6000b3ia	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000b3ia,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.9619° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.787° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

58.3 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

70 km SW 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

2020-07-20 19:09:43

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-07-28 12:56:33

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

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

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

271

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

1.648

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

Root Mean Square

0.97 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

180

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

Magnitude Type

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

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000b3ia

Id of event.

Event Code

6000b3ia

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

Event IDS

,us6000b3ia,

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

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