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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Amatitlán in Guatemala

Posted by admin on July 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.4995S, -90.6206WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Amatitlán in Guatemala on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:41:32 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/25 / 2025-07-08 21:41:32 / July 8, 2025 @ 9:41 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -90.6206° West, 14.4995° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us7000qbfv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qbfv.

Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concepción Chiquirichapa, Retalhuleu, San Carlos Sija. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km NNE of Amatitlán, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.6206° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.4995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NNE of Amatitlán, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-08 21:41:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-08 22:02:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 485 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 82 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us7000qbfv Id of event.
Event Code 7000qbfv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qbfv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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