Major earthquake 7.2 mag, 153 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador

A major earthquake magnitude 7.2 (ml/mb) strikes 153 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador (95 miles) on Thursday. Global time and date of event 24/11/16 / 2016-11-24 18:43:53 / November 24, 2016 @ 6:43 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: at00oh5td3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00oh5td3, pt16329050. Exact location of earthquake, -88.911° West, 11.945° North, depth 33 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 7.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:43:53 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. There are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 153 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.911° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.945° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	153km SSW 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	2016-11-24 18:43:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-24 18:57:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	13	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	1	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	803	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,pt,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	166	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111.599991072	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00oh5td3	Id of event.
Event Code	00oh5td3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00oh5td3,pt16329050,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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