What the records say
- When
- 6 Aug 1942
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.7
- Where
- Guatemala
- Coordinates
- 13.86° N, 91.16° W
- Intensity mmi
- 8
- Depth km
- 35
1942 Guatemala earthquake
Earthquake off southern coast of Guatemala
The 1942 Guatemala earthquake occurred at 17:37 local time on August 6 and had ratings of 7.7 on the moment magnitude scale and 7.9 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. The epicenter was located off the southern coast of Guatemala, and it was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded there.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 1942 Guatemala earthquake was felt in El Salvador”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Guatemala se registra un fuerte terremoto de 7,7 que deja 38 fallecidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page