M4.5 earthquake 63 km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 63 km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala on Mon, May 2, 2016, 8:38 PM CST (02:38 UTC), 27 km (17 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.4 35 km SE of Champerico, Guatemala. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.5 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-05-03 02:38:51 UTC
- Depth
- 27.0 km (16.8 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 13.620° N, 91.403° W
- Region
- Guatemala
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
Felt (II) at Ahuachapan, El Salvador.
From the USGS event page for us10005d7j. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Oblique normal
- Moment magnitude
- 4.5 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 78°, dip 64°, rake -34°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 185°, dip 60°, rake -149°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 6.9 km horizontally, 5.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 136°
- Stations used
- 105
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 12 in the 60 days after this one and 5 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.753 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala · 3804 days ago · 35 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.77 km SSE of Patulul, Guatemala · 3799 days ago · 114 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.352 km SSW of Puerto San José, Guatemala · 3796 days ago · 38 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.968 km SSW of Puerto San José, Guatemala · 3791 days ago · 51 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.319 km S of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala · 3790 days ago · 68 km deep · 46 km away · felt by 5
- 4.317 km SSW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala · 3789 days ago · 59 km deep · 48 km away · felt by 1
- 5.245 km S of Puerto San José, Guatemala · 3768 days ago · 35 km deep · 58 km away · felt by 6
- 4.498 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 3768 days ago · 10 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.287 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala · 3766 days ago · 19 km deep · 28 km away
- 5.435 km SE of Champerico, Guatemala · 3761 days ago · 61 km deep · 61 km away · felt by 38
- 4.010 km NNW of Iztapa, Guatemala · 3761 days ago · 67 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.1100 km S of Puerto San José, Guatemala · 3747 days ago · 10 km deep · 91 km away
Before
- 4.766 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala · 3805 days ago · 35 km deep · 7 km away · felt by 1
- 4.526 km S of Iztapa, Guatemala · 3818 days ago · 46 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 5
- 4.278 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 3822 days ago · 37 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.461 km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala · 3827 days ago · 35 km deep · 3 km away
- 4.553 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala · 3829 days ago · 10 km deep · 97 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10005d7j. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC.