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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 155 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.0215S, -89.1712WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 155 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador (96 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -89.1712 West, latitude 12.0215 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/24 / 2024-04-26 08:37:54 / April 26, 2024 @ 8:37 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 08:37:54 / 8:37 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mtxr. Id of event: us6000mtxr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 155 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.1712° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.0215° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155 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 2024-04-26 08:37:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-26 12:06:11 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us6000mtxr Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtxr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtxr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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