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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 13 km NNW of Berlín, El Salvador

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Berlín in El Salvador on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 186.094 km (116 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/12/25 / 2025-12-28 09:55:25 / December 28, 2025 @ 9:55 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000rl69. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rl69. The temblor was detected at 09:55:25 / 9:55 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 earthquake, -88.5865° West, 13.6093° North, depth 186.094 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Alianza, Intibucá, La Esperanza (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 13 km NNW of Berlín, El Salvador.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-88.5865° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.6093° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	186.094 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NNW of Berlín, 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	2025-12-28 09:55:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-28 12:22:57	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	298	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.292	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	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	us7000rl69	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rl69	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rl69,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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