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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Nueva Concepción in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.7384S, -91.5048WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Nueva Concepción in Guatemala on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.64 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pbqa. Unique identifier: us7000pbqa. Exact location of event, longitude -91.5048 West, latitude 13.7384 North, depth = 60.64 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:33:25 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/02/25 / 2025-02-06 02:33:25 / February 6, 2025 @ 2:33 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Chicacao (c. 20 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from San Pablo Jocopilas (c. 20 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pablo Jocopilas, San Francisco Zapotitlán, Samayac (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km SSW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.5048° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55 km SSW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-06 02:33:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-13 01:32:57 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 298 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.818 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us7000pbqa Id of event.
Event Code 7000pbqa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pbqa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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