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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Puerto San José in Guatemala

Posted by admin on December 13, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2295S, -91.2529WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Puerto San José in Guatemala. Exact location of earthquake, -91.2529° West, 13.2295° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 21:21:40 / 9:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/12/25 / 2025-12-13 21:21:40 / December 13, 2025 @ 9:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000ruq2. Event ids that are associated: us6000ruq2. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 97 km (61 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Gomera, Puerto San José. Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-one 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 90 km SSW of Puerto San José, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.2529° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2295° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90 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 2025-12-13 21:21:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-13 22:21:22 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 340 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.581 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us6000ruq2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ruq2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ruq2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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