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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Atiquizaya in El Salvador

Posted by admin on July 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.0256S, -89.8252WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Atiquizaya in El Salvador on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 02:09:51 / July 30, 2025 @ 2:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000qw80. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qw80. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.063 km (6 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:09:51 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -89.8252° West, latitude 14.0256° North, depth = 9.063 km.

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Antonio La Paz, Petapa, Sanarate.

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

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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 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: 9 km NW of Atiquizaya, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.8252° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0256° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.063 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km NW of Atiquizaya, 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 2025-07-30 02:09:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-30 03:59:03 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us6000qw80 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qw80 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qw80, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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