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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 4 km SW of Jerez, Guatemala

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Jerez in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qw5g. Id of event: us6000qw5g. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -89.7762 West, latitude 14.0613 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 21:53:44 / July 29, 2025 @ 9:53 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:53:44 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sanarate, Palencia, Chalatenango (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km SW of Jerez, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.7762° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.0613° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km SW of Jerez, 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 21:53:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-30 23:19:52	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	271	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.158	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us6000qw5g	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qw5g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qw5g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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