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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 4 km SE of Olocuilta, El Salvador

Posted by admin on November 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.5445S, -89.0828WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Olocuilta in El Salvador. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/11/25 / 2025-11-26 10:49:02 / November 26, 2025 @ 10:49 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 143.324 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000rdwr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rdwr. The temblor was detected at 10:49:02 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.0828 West, latitude 13.5445 North, depth = 143.324 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ahuachapán, Ciudad Barrios, Concepción de Ataco (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 4 km SE of Olocuilta, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.0828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143.324 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km SE of Olocuilta, 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 2025-11-26 10:49:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-27 05:25:23 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 284 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us7000rdwr Id of event.
Event Code 7000rdwr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rdwr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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