Earthquake in Guatemala!

Just after we climbed into bed last night, we felt the rig shaking really hard for a couple of seconds. At first I thought it was a big gust of wind that had hit us. But Dave went up on deck and said it was dead calm out.

After a few minutes of discussion, we decided that it could be an earthquake. It turns out that the Rio Dulce is right on a fairly significant fault line between the Caribbean plate and the North American plate. See the little yellow 'we are here' on the map below.

Map from Major Guatemalan Earthquake in 1976
This morning on the VHF net, one of the Guatemalans came on and said there had been an earthquake last night just before midnight. I did a little poking around on the seismic sites and it looks like it was measured as a 5.1 or 5.2 somewhere in Guatemala.

Anyway, we are fine. There were no immediate reports of any damage in our area. All the boats are fine here at Catamaran Marina.