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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Comapa in Guatemala

Posted by admin on July 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.0815S, -89.9095WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Comapa in Guatemala. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 21:42:27 / July 29, 2025 @ 9:42 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.9095 West, latitude 14.0815 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 21:42:27 / 9:42 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000qw5c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qw5c.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Bartolomé Milpas Altas, Santa María de Jesús, Puerto San José. The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 3 km S of Comapa, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.9095° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km S of Comapa, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-29 21:42:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-29 21:57:27 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 354 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.218 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us6000qw5c Id of event.
Event Code 6000qw5c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qw5c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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