Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tiquisate in Guatemala

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Tiquisate in Guatemala on Friday. 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: 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 21:37:13 / September 19, 2025 @ 9:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.989 km (45 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -91.6176° West, 14.1788° North, depth 71.989 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rgdb. Event ids that are associated: us6000rgdb. The temblor was detected at 21:37:13 / 9:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Escuintla, Puerto San José, Patzicía (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km WSW of Tiquisate, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.6176° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.1788° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	71.989 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km WSW of Tiquisate, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-19 21:37:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-18 22:46:37	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	0	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.383	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	217	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	us6000rgdb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rgdb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rgdb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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