5.8 Quake hits Guatemala City.

[dgibby]

Reports of people buried in rubble, according to CNN.

[LiberalLoner]

1. Oh, that's awful. :(

[kestrel91316]

2. USGS:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/270_15.php

[kestrel91316]

3. More:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/19/5-8-magnitude-earthquake-hits-guatemala/

[teddy51]

4. Considering this (inside) this is not at all good.

Guatemala City, Guatemala (1976, February 4)
A 7.5 earthquake struck at 3:04 a.m. while most people were still sleeping. Thousands of unstable buildings collapsed and buried the people still inside. 24,000 people were killed, 50,000 injured, and as many as one million left without homes. A second series of shocks hit on February 6, collapsing more of the surviving buildings. Thousands more were killed and relief efforts hampered. The United States gave more than $10 million in assistance, but the full property and industrial losses, estimated at $3 billion, could never be reclaimed.

[dgibby]

5. Update per CNN:

Center of quake near old vocano cauldra. Many small quakes in area. Mudslides have caused several deaths. Many people trapped in rubble.