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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Puerto San José in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.2167S, -91.0754WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Puerto San José in Guatemala. The temblor was picked up at 05:59:51 / 5:59 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r1p8. Unique identifier: us6000r1p8. Exact location of event, longitude -91.0754 West, latitude 13.2167 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/25 / 2025-08-17 05:59:51 / August 17, 2025 @ 5:59 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Gomera, Puerto San José. The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 83 km SSW of Puerto San José, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.0754° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 km SSW of Puerto San José, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-17 05:59:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-17 06:22:10 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 2 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 449 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.415 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000r1p8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1p8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1p8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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