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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Santa María Ixhuatán in Guatemala

Posted by admin on July 10, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1579S, -90.2115WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Santa María Ixhuatán in Guatemala on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 161.377 km (100 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:38:30 / 2:38 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qbuf. Id of event: us7000qbuf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/07/25 / 2025-07-10 14:38:30 / July 10, 2025 @ 2:38 pm. Exact location, longitude -90.2115° West, latitude 14.1579° North, depth = 161.377 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patzún, Esquipulas, Chiquimula. Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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. 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: 7 km ESE of Santa María Ixhuatán, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.2115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1579° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 161.377 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km ESE of Santa María Ixhuatán, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-10 14:38:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-10 14:53:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 385 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.464 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qbuf Id of event.
Event Code 7000qbuf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qbuf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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