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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 8 km SE of Comapa, Guatemala

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Earthquake location 14.0568S, -89.8591WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Comapa in Guatemala. Global time and date of event 06/08/25 / 2025-08-06 02:32:52 / August 6, 2025 @ 2:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -89.8591° West, latitude 14.0568° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000qyg0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qyg0. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:32:52 / 2:32 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amatitlán, Villa Nueva, San Vicente Pacaya. Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 8 km SE of Comapa, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.8591° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km SE 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 2025-08-06 02:32:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-06 02:49:37 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 298 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.172 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us6000qyg0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyg0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyg0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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