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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Nueva Concepción in Guatemala

Posted by admin on February 5, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.8202S, -91.5748WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Nueva Concepción in Guatemala. Exact location, longitude -91.5748° West, latitude 13.8202° North, depth = 57.548 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pbfb. Event ids that are associated: us7000pbfb. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57.548 km (36 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 07:01:18 / February 5, 2025 @ 7:01 am. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:01:18 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Sololá (c. 45 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Santiago Atitlán (c. 33 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patzicía, Sololá, Patzún (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 51 km SW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.5748° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.548 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51 km SW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-05 07:01:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-05 07:16:55 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 482 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 78 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.736 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 79 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 us7000pbfb Id of event.
Event Code 7000pbfb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pbfb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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