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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

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Earthquake location 12.8943S, -88.714WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Exact location of event, longitude -88.714 West, latitude 12.8943 North, depth = 61.775 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:15:58 / 7:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000mteu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mteu. Global time and date of event 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 07:15:58 / April 24, 2024 @ 7:15 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.775 km (38 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Tomás, Cojutepeque, Panchimalco (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, 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 have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.714° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8943° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.775 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 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 2024-04-24 07:15:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-24 14:34:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 312 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us6000mteu Id of event.
Event Code 6000mteu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mteu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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