Guatemala earthquakes

M5.0 earthquake 15 km WSW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck 15 km WSW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala on Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 5:39 PM CST (23:39 UTC), 63 km (39 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M5.2 11 km S of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 5.0 (Mwr, regional moment), moderate
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 5:39 PM CST
UTC: 2015-07-31 23:39:25 UTC
Depth: 63.4 km (39.4 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 14.130° N, 91.421° W
Region: Guatemala
Felt reports: 41
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
5.0	Mwr, regional moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed · ±0.073 · 18 stations
5.09	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Felt (III) at Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala City, Santa Catarina Pinula and Villa Nueva. Also felt at Chinautla, Ciudad Vieja, Lanquin, Mazatenango, Mixco, Olintepeque, Panajachel, San Antonio Aguas Calientes, San Pablo La Laguna and San Pedro La Laguna. Felt (III) at San Salvador, El Salvador.

From the USGS event page for us10002x0r. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Did you feel it?

41 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was V, moderate shaking.

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Oblique reverse
Moment magnitude: 5.0 Mwr
Nodal plane 1: Strike 76°, dip 33°, rake 40°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 310°, dip 69°, rake 116°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Location uncertainty: About 6.3 km horizontally, 3.3 km in depth
Magnitude uncertainty: ±0.07
Depth from: From location
Station coverage gap: 32°
Stations used: 847

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.0 and up: 11 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.

After

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10002x0r (also filed as iscgem607575607). Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC.