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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 58 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador

Posted by admin on January 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.781S, -88.7206WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/01/25 / 2025-01-19 05:57:21 / January 19, 2025 @ 5:57 am. The temblor was picked up at 05:57:21 / 5:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.82 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.7206 West, latitude 12.781 North, depth = 57.82 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pl1r. Event ids that are associated: us6000pl1r.

Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nueva Guadalupe, Jucuapa, Chinameca. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Santiago de María (c. 15 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Berlín (c. 11 300 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 58 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 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.7206° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.781° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 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 2025-01-19 05:57:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-19 07:35:46 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 298 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.786 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us6000pl1r Id of event.
Event Code 6000pl1r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pl1r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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