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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near San Alejo in El Salvador

Posted by admin on November 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.4568S, -87.9805WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Alejo in El Salvador. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rnbk. Id of event: us6000rnbk. The temblor was detected at 02:36:13 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/10/25 / 2025-10-26 02:36:13 / October 26, 2025 @ 2:36 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -87.9805 West, latitude 13.4568 North, depth = 230.595 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 230.595 km (143 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Vicente, Apastepeque, Ciudad Choluteca (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km NW of San Alejo, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.9805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 230.595 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km NW of San Alejo, 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 2025-10-26 02:36:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-16 00:26:39 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 271 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.334 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us6000rnbk Id of event.
Event Code 6000rnbk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rnbk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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