Earthquakes in Guatemala, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 465 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Guatemala. The strongest was a magnitude 7.3 on July 17, 2026 (60 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 2 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.6 on October 19 (5 km E of San José El Ídolo, Guatemala).
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 5.7 on July 8, 2025 (3 km SSW of Amatitlán, Guatemala), for which NOAA records 7 deaths. 7 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 217 in all. NOAA lists one tsunami that began in or off Guatemala. It reached 0.34 m, on July 17, 2026. NOAA lists 3 significant eruptions of 2 volcanoes in or off Guatemala. The largest was Fuego on June 3, 2018, at 2 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 201 people by NOAA’s count.
The events
- July 17, 2026Earthquake · M 7.360 km WSW of Puerto Madero, MexicoUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- July 17, 2026Tsunami · 0.34 m highS. MexicoNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- July 8, 2025Earthquake · M 5.73 km SSW of Amatitlán, Guatemala · 7 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- February 1, 2019Earthquake · M 6.75 km SW of Puerto Madero, MexicoUSGS
- February 1, 2019Earthquake · M 6.7Chiapas; Guatemala: San MarcosNOAA NCEI
- June 3, 2018Eruption · VEI 2Fuego · 201 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- June 22, 2017Earthquake · M 6.828 km SW of Puerto San José, GuatemalaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- June 14, 2017Earthquake · M 6.92 km SSW of San Pablo, Guatemala · 5 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- June 6, 2017Eruption · VEI 2FuegoNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
Good to know
- An event counts for Guatemala when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Guatemala is the nearest country.
- 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.
- The map frames the box around Guatemala, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
- Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.
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