A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Santa María de Jesús in Guatemala. Unique identifier: us7000qbrr. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qbrr. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.73 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -90.6998° West, 14.5141° North, depth 2.73 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/07/25 / 2025-07-10 08:29:34 / July 10, 2025 @ 8:29 am. The temblor was picked up at 08:29:34 / 8:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jutiapa, Monjas, Zunil (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km NNE of Santa María de Jesús, Guatemala.
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