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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Acajutla in El Salvador

Posted by admin on May 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.5533S, -89.9394WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Acajutla in El Salvador. The temblor was picked up at 22:53:04 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000qgai. Event ids that are associated: us6000qgai. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/05/25 / 2025-05-27 22:53:04 / May 27, 2025 @ 10:53 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.9394 West, latitude 13.5533 North, depth = 65.5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.5 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Close country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nueva Concepción, Aguilares, Tonacatepeque.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km WSW of Acajutla, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.9394° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5533° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km WSW of Acajutla, 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 2025-05-27 22:53:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-28 03:25:32 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 298 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.38 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us6000qgai Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgai An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgai, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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