Earthquakes near Guatemala City, 2017–2026

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 5.7 on July 29, 2025 (6 km SE of Comapa, Guatemala), for which NOAA records one death. 2 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 209 in all. NOAA lists 3 significant eruptions of 2 volcanoes within 100 km of Guatemala City. The largest was Fuego on June 3, 2018, at 2 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 201 people by NOAA’s count.

• July 29, 2025Earthquake · M 5.76 km SE of Comapa, Guatemala · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
• July 21, 2024Earthquake · M 6.26 km E of Jalapa, GuatemalaUSGS
• May 17, 2023Earthquake · M 6.48 km SE of Canillá, GuatemalaUSGS
• June 3, 2018Eruption · VEI 2Fuego · 201 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• June 6, 2017Eruption · VEI 2FuegoNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Guatemala City when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
• USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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