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

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:29:39 / 12:29 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d3sl. Unique identifier: us2000d3sl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.78 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/02/18 / 2018-02-17 06:29:39 / February 17, 2018 @ 6:29 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -88.5266 West, latitude 12.9347 North, depth = 50.78 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guatajiagua, La Unión, Apastepeque.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel anything?

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 S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

Apastepeque El Salvador Guatajiagua La Unión Puerto El Triunfo San Miguel San Rafael Oriente San Vicente Usulután Zacatecoluca

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.5266° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.9347° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km S 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	2018-02-17 06:29:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-17 06:50:03	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	1.014	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	164	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	us2000d3sl	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d3sl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d3sl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-88.5266° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.9347° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

50.78 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

38km S 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

2018-02-17 06:29:39

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-02-17 06:50:03

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

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

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

1.014

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.03 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

164

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000d3sl

Id of event.

Event Code

2000d3sl

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us2000d3sl,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

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

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information