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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on May 13, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.8674S, -88.8352WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/05/25 / 2025-05-10 18:36:56 / May 10, 2025 @ 6:36 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000pygb. Event ids that are associated: us7000pygb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 66.544 km, -88.8352° West, 12.8674° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66.544 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:36:56 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from San Marcos (c. 54 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Zacatecoluca (c. 39 600 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Ilopango (c. 38 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ilopango, San Sebastián, San Marcos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-two 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 quakes in the world each year.

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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: 55 km SW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.8352° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.544 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55 km SW 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 2025-05-10 18:36:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-13 14:55:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 95 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pygb Id of event.
Event Code 7000pygb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pygb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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