A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Alotenango in Guatemala on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/25 / 2025-07-08 21:53:07 / July 8, 2025 @ 9:53 pm. Exact location, longitude -90.7809° West, latitude 14.4488° North, depth = 7.961 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.961 km (5 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:53:07 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000qyda. Event ids that are associated: us6000qyda.
Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quetzaltenango, San Felipe, Jalpatagua (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fifty 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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