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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near El Rosario in El Salvador

Posted by admin on November 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.266S, -89.0824WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from El Rosario in El Salvador. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000rekd. Unique identifier: us7000rekd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/25 / 2025-11-29 06:52:40 / November 29, 2025 @ 6:52 am. The temblor was picked up at 06:52:40 / 6:52 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 84.208 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.0824 West, latitude 13.266 North, depth = 84.208 km.

Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chalchuapa, Chirilagua, San Miguel (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

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

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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: 26 km SSW of El Rosario, El Salvador.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.0824° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.266° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.208 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km SSW of El Rosario, 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 2025-11-29 06:52:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-29 07:15:19 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 369 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 107 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.466 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us7000rekd Id of event.
Event Code 7000rekd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rekd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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