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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near El Rosario in El Salvador

Posted by admin on March 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.1075S, -89.1031WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from El Rosario in El Salvador. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pz0x. Unique identifier: us6000pz0x. Exact location, longitude -89.1031° West, latitude 13.1075° North, depth = 62.237 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.237 km (39 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/03/25 / 2025-03-15 11:38:52 / March 15, 2025 @ 11:38 am. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:38:52 / 11:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan Opico, Ciudad Arce, San Rafael Oriente (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 43 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 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.1031° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1075° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.237 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 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 2025-03-15 11:38:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-15 12:18:15 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 246 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 0.623 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us6000pz0x Id of event.
Event Code 6000pz0x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pz0x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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