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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Santa María de Jesús in Guatemala

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Santa María de Jesús in Guatemala. Event id: us7000qbir. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qbir. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -90.7267 West, latitude 14.4911 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/07/25 / 2025-07-09 06:32:46 / July 9, 2025 @ 6:32 am. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:32:46 / 6:32 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (18 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Totonicapán, Santo Domingo Suchitepéquez, Guastatoya.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 1 km WSW of Santa María de Jesús, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.7267° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.4911° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km WSW of Santa María de Jesús, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-09 06:32:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-09 14:07:09	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	178	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.225	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	152	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qbir	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qbir	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qbir,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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