Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near El Rosario in El Salvador

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from El Rosario in El Salvador on Thursday. Global time and date of event 10/04/25 / 2025-04-10 19:35:14 / April 10, 2025 @ 7:35 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 19:35:14 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q57p. Unique identifier: us6000q57p. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.339 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -89.053° West, latitude 13.0658° North, depth = 59.339 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nueva Guadalupe, Guazapa, Chinameca (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop).

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 fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 47 km S of El Rosario, El Salvador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.053° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.0658° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	59.339 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 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	2025-04-10 19:35:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-10 19:49:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	272	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.653	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157	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	us6000q57p	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q57p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q57p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-89.053° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.0658° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

59.339 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

47 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

2025-04-10 19:35:14

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2025-04-10 19:49:30

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

3.1

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

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

272

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

0.653

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.93 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

157

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000q57p

Id of event.

Event Code

6000q57p

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000q57p,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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