Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 44 km S of El Rosario, El Salvador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from El Rosario in El Salvador on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us6000pi14. Event ids that are associated: us6000pi14. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/01/25 / 2025-01-05 17:46:51 / January 5, 2025 @ 5:46 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:46:51 / 5:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 72.835 km (45 miles). Exact location, longitude -89.044° West, latitude 13.0922° North, depth = 72.835 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nueva Guadalupe, Guazapa, Chinameca. Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km S of El Rosario, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.044° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.0922° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.835 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km S of El Rosario, 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	2025-01-05 17:46:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-09 18:18:25	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	284	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	65	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.626	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	us6000pi14	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pi14	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pi14,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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