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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Jucuarán in El Salvador


Earthquake location 13.3208S, -88.1849WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Jucuarán in El Salvador. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 207.28 km (129 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -88.1849° West, 13.3208° North, depth 207.28 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/25 / 2025-02-07 05:36:55 / February 7, 2025 @ 5:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pc16. Id of event: us7000pc16. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:36:55 / 5:36 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from San Martín (c. 39 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Martín, Marcala, El Rosario (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NE of Jucuarán, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.1849° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3208° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 207.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km NE of Jucuarán, 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 2025-02-07 05:36:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-07 08:15:25 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 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us7000pc16 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pc16 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pc16, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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