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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.5064S, -88.8051WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Exact location of event, depth 60.43 km, -88.8051° West, 12.5064° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.43 km (38 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/02/21 / 2021-02-03 10:37:28 / February 3, 2021 @ 10:37 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:37:28 / 10:37 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000de5f. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000de5f.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Jiquilisco (c. 9 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jiquilisco, Puerto El Triunfo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 90 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.8051° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.5064° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90 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 2021-02-03 10:37:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-03 10:58:49 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 340 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 1.752 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us6000de5f Id of event.
Event Code 6000de5f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000de5f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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