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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador


Earthquake location 12.6304S, -88.9884WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 09:26:54 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/19 / 2019-03-26 15:26:54 / March 26, 2019 @ 3:26 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -88.9884 West, latitude 12.6304 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000jlst. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jlst.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Usulután, Santiago Nonualco, Zacatecoluca. Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (62 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo (c. 19 100 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Santiago Nonualco (c. 9 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Jiquilisco (c. 9 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from El Rosario (c. 5 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.9884° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6304° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 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 2019-03-26 15:26:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-26 15:44:40 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 354 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 1.794 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us1000jlst Id of event.
Event Code 1000jlst An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jlst, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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