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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Palín in Guatemala

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Palín in Guatemala on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -90.703 West, latitude 14.4194 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/25 / 2025-07-08 23:45:35 / July 8, 2025 @ 11:45 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000qbgn. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qbgn. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:45:35 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Samayac, Guastatoya, Santa Cruz del Quiché (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 1 km NNW of Palín, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.703° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.4194° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km NNW of Palín, 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 23:45:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-09 05:19:36	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	188	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.228	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	159	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	us7000qbgn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qbgn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qbgn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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