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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 53 km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.916 West, latitude 12.9614 North, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 19:36:44 / March 12, 2025 @ 7:36 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:36:44 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000pyfy. Event ids that are associated: us6000pyfy.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Martín, Cuscatancingo, Delgado. Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 53 km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.916° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.9614° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53 km SW 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	2025-03-12 19:36:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-12 20:34:12	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	259	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.747	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	171	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	us6000pyfy	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pyfy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pyfy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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