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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 35 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador

Posted by admin on November 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0078S, -88.7187WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Puerto El Triunfo in El Salvador on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 01:49:05 / 1:49 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/25 / 2025-11-09 01:49:05 / November 9, 2025 @ 1:49 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rmbn. Id of event: us6000rmbn. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 65.9 km (41 miles). Exact location, longitude -88.7187° West, latitude 13.0078° North, depth = 65.9 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Francisco, Apopa, La Unión (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 35 km SSW of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.7187° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km SSW 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 2025-11-09 01:49:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-09 02:16:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 372 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.599 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us6000rmbn Id of event.
Event Code 6000rmbn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rmbn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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