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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.5693S, -88.8794WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i6x6. Id of event: us2000i6x6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/11/18 / 2018-11-05 07:27:22 / November 5, 2018 @ 7:27 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -88.8794° West, latitude 12.5693° North, depth = 40.43 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 40.43 km (25 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:27:22 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jiquilisco, Puerto El Triunfo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Jiquilisco (c. 9 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 86 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.8794° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.5693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 2018-11-05 07:27:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-05 09:05:04 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 312 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 1.162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us2000i6x6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000i6x6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i6x6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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