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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Palín in Guatemala

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Palín in Guatemala. Exact location of event, longitude -90.6874 West, latitude 14.4327 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:06:34 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/07/25 / 2025-07-09 00:06:34 / July 9, 2025 @ 12:06 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000qbgu. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qbgu.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (18 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jutiapa, San Jerónimo, Santo Domingo Suchitepéquez (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 3 km NNE of Palín, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.6874° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.4327° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km NNE 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	2025-07-09 00:06:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-09 05:10:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	235	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.208	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	us7000qbgu	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qbgu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qbgu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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