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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on June 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0931S, -88.5664WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ql02. Unique identifier: us6000ql02. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.191 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -88.5664 West, latitude 13.0931 North, depth = 81.191 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:57:24 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/06/25 / 2025-06-18 11:57:24 / June 18, 2025 @ 11:57 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guazapa, Suchitoto, Apopa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.5664° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0931° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.191 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km 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 2025-06-18 11:57:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-18 12:17:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 450 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 98 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.442 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000ql02 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ql02 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ql02, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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