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Light earthquake 4 mag, 8 km NNW of Ahuachapán, El Salvador

Posted by admin on July 31, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9894S, -89.8808WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ahuachapán in El Salvador on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/25 / 2025-07-31 00:32:49 / July 31, 2025 @ 12:32 am. Id of earthquake: us6000qwsc. Event ids that are associated: us6000qwsc. The temblor was detected at 00:32:49 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -89.8808 West, latitude 13.9894 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nueva Ocotepeque, Santo Tomás, Ilopango (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 8 km NNW of Ahuachapán, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.8808° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9894° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km NNW of Ahuachapán, 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 2025-07-31 00:32:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-31 03:46:47 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 246 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us6000qwsc Id of event.
Event Code 6000qwsc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qwsc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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