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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Palín in Guatemala


Earthquake location 14.3891S, -90.7527WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Palín in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.7527 West, latitude 14.3891 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/25 / 2025-07-08 21:49:23 / July 8, 2025 @ 9:49 pm. Unique identifier: us6000qyd8. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qyd8. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:49:23 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 38 km (24 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zunil, Guastatoya, Cuyotenango.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km WSW of Palín, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.7527° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.3891° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km WSW of Palín, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-08 21:49:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-06 23:14:58 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 246 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us6000qyd8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyd8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyd8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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