Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Puerto San José in Guatemala

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Puerto San José in Guatemala on Wednesday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:33:19 / 6:33 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000qwc0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qwc0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/25 / 2025-08-20 18:33:19 / August 20, 2025 @ 6:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -91.0207° West, latitude 13.5543° North, depth = 35 km.

Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Chiquimulilla (c. 12 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chiquimulilla, Tiquisate, Escuintla (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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: 46 km SSW of Puerto San José, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.0207° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.5543° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 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	2025-08-20 18:33:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-15 19:47:49	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.096	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	201	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	us7000qwc0	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qwc0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qwc0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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