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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Santa María de Jesús in Guatemala

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Santa María de Jesús in Guatemala on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 04:03:46 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000qccs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qccs. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/07/25 / 2025-07-13 04:03:46 / July 13, 2025 @ 4:03 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.059 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -90.6864° West, latitude 14.4961° North, depth = 6.059 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Samayac, Jalpatagua, Moyuta. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 25 km (15 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop).

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

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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 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: 2 km E of Santa María de Jesús, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.6864° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.4961° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.059 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km E 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	2025-07-13 04:03:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-13 04:28:09	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	2	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	200	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	0.186	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	149	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	us7000qccs	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qccs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qccs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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