The 2017 Guatemala earthquake struck near the city of Malacatán in the San Marcos Department, near the Guatemala–Mexico border at 1:29 am local time (UTC−06:00) on June 14.

This subduction zone runs from Mexico to Costa Rica where large earthquakes have been sourced from.

The magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck at an intermediate depth of 93 km under the Sierra Madre de Chiapas range, at the front of Volcán Tajumulco.

[8] Heart attacks attributed to the earthquake claimed the lives of three women that morning.

[8] The earthquake collapsed some homes and triggered landslides that blocked roads and caused some injuries.