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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near El Adelanto in Guatemala

Posted by admin on July 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1798S, -89.8888WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from El Adelanto in Guatemala on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 21:25:24 / July 29, 2025 @ 9:25 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000qw59. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qw59. 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 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:25:24 / 9:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.8888 West, latitude 14.1798 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Parramos, Copán, Olocuilta. Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 6 km W of El Adelanto, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.8888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1798° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km W of El Adelanto, 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 21:25:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-29 21:47:25 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 5 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 433 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us6000qw59 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qw59 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qw59, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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