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User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale. Contribute: Flag as inappropriate. Send your own user report! leave your comment here 138.6 km NNW of epicenter [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 15-20 s : It woke me up. Water inside of bottle moving around, chain on the door swinging. Felt longer and strong than the first | One user found this interesting.    88.5 km ENE of epicenter [Map] ...

Exhumation at Comalapa  Photographs and text byVictor BlueView Images Exhumation at Comalapa  A photo-essay from Guatemala by photojournalist Victor Blue. Guatemala suffered through a 36-year civil war in which at least 250,000 people were killed, and 50,000 "disappeared", almost all civilians, mostly Mayan Indians, and almost all killed by the Guatemalan Military. Comalapa is a small village an hour and a half from Guatemala City. During the war a...

Mexico City, Mexico, Sep 21, 2017 / 06:28 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Sister Crucita has been a member of the Josephine Sisters in Mexico for 70 years. At nearly 100 years old, she says she is happy with her vocation and would not change her decision to give her life to God. In an interview with CNA, Sister Crucita – whose full religious name is Sister Maria of the Royal Cross – said that the secret of her perseverance has always been her trust in the mercy of God and the support of the Blessed Vi...

Man Shot by Bodyguards After Attempting to Rob Congressman in His Car Newsweek 3 days ago Courtney Brogle © Ross Land/Getty Images A congressmen was lucky to have his bodyguards in the car with him when an armed robber approached his vehicle. A congressman came out of an attempted armed robbery unscathed thanks to the quick thinking of the bodyguards in his car with him. Aldo Dávila, who currently serves as Guatemalas first openly gay congressperson, was traveling with his...

Pacaya volcano fires ash 3,200 meters into the air 1 minute read Guatemala City, Feb 21 (efe-epa).- Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano continued to erupt Sunday with explosions sending ash columns 3,200 meters into the air, warned the National Institute for Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (Insivumeh). In its most recent bulletin, Insivumeh warned that the volcano’s high level of activity is accompanied by ashfall on villages more than 25 kilometers away, as well as lava flow. L...

In his statement, Blinken mentioned that transfers under the US-Guatemala Asylum Cooperative Agreement had been paused since mid-March 2020 due to COVID-19, and the Agreements with El Salvador and Honduras were never implemented

It was one of Alejandro Giammattei’s most emphatic promises.One year later, the Interior Ministry supported his strategy to reduce extortions by cutting off access to communication devices among the inmates responsible for making extortive phone calls from jail.

Report on Fuego (Guatemala) — December 2020 Format Managing Editor: Edward Venzke. Edited by A. Elizabeth Crafford. Fuego (Guatemala) Please cite this report as: Global Volcanism Program, 2020. Report on Fuego (Guatemala) (Crafford, A.E., and Venzke, E., eds.). Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 45:12. Smithsonian Institution. Fuego All times are local (unless otherwise noted) Guatemalas Volcán de Fuego has been erupting vigorously since 2002 with reported eruptions dating back to 1...

Lying and stealing is nothing new for politicians, and the best thing people can hope for is to vote them out of power come election day. But these angry southern Mexican residents took it farther by deciding to punish their mayor in a very special way – they tied him to a tree. Mayor Óscar Ramírez was presenting his new public projects for the people of Frontera Comalapa in the state of Chiapas. Water system improvements were a key part of his campaign promises. In a get-together wi...

I met Paola and baby Eunice last July in the department of San Marcos, Guatemala. They live in a small rural town which sits at the highest point of the municipality of Tejutla. At 8 months old, Eunice was diagnosed with acute malnutrition.  The news was devastating for Paola, but brigadistas — volunteers and staff of the Government’s health and nutrition brigades — are luckily at hand to provide the supplements and other medications Eunice will need to recover. Brigadistas go door-to...