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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Tecpán Guatemala in Guatemala

Posted by admin on December 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.7856S, -91.0593WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tecpán Guatemala in Guatemala on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, -91.0593° West, 14.7856° North, depth 169.27 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/12/25 / 2025-12-02 12:59:00 / December 2, 2025 @ 12:59 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000rvsk. Event ids that are associated: us6000rvsk. The temblor was detected at 12:59:00 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 169.27 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sanarate, Santa Cruz Verapaz, Nuevo Progreso (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km WNW of Tecpán Guatemala, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.0593° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7856° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 169.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km WNW of Tecpán Guatemala, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-02 12:59:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-26 13:40:13 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 284 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us6000rvsk Id of event.
Event Code 6000rvsk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rvsk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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