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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 90 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.5053S, -88.8181WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us1000ezw9. Event ids that are associated: us1000ezw9. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/06/18 / 2018-06-23 21:54:31 / June 23, 2018 @ 9:54 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.8181 West, latitude 12.5053 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:54:31 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Jiquilisco (c. 9 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jiquilisco, Puerto El Triunfo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 90 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.8181° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.5053° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km 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 2018-06-23 21:54:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-23 22:12:15 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 326 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 1.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us1000ezw9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ezw9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ezw9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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