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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 48 km S of Puerto San José, Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.4886S, -90.8211WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Puerto San José in Guatemala. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qe1i. Id of event: us7000qe1i. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:02:43 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -90.8211 West, latitude 13.4886 North, depth = 50.397 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50.397 km (31 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/07/25 / 2025-07-20 13:02:43 / July 20, 2025 @ 1:02 pm.

Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Chiquimulilla (c. 12 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Masagua (c. 10 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guazacapán (c. 7 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Escuintla, La Democracia, Chiquimulilla (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 48 km S of Puerto San José, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.8211° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.397 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km S of Puerto San José, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-20 13:02:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-20 14:23:49 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 284 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.083 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us7000qe1i Id of event.
Event Code 7000qe1i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qe1i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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