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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on March 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.9316S, -88.8536WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Event id: us6000pzy8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pzy8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.725 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 08:15:17 / March 20, 2025 @ 8:15 am. The temblor was reported at 08:15:17 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -88.8536° West, latitude 12.9316° North, depth = 55.725 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Apopa, Tonacatepeque, Ayutuxtepeque.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.8536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.725 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 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 2025-03-20 08:15:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-20 08:31:13 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 385 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.743 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pzy8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pzy8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pzy8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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