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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.9833S, -88.7356WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.14 km (49 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -88.7356° West, 12.9833° North, depth 79.14 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 15:47:56 / May 13, 2018 @ 3:47 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:47:56 / 9:47 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000e45b. Event ids that are associated: us1000e45b.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Salvador, Soyapango, San Martín. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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.

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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. 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: 38 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.7356° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km 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 2018-05-13 15:47:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-13 19:00:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 284 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.849 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us1000e45b Id of event.
Event Code 1000e45b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e45b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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