Latest Earthquakes in or near Mexico: Today and Recently (2024)

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Where was the 3.7 earthquake today? ›

A preliminary 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday morning in Central California, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake hit at 6:01 a.m. and was centered about 22 miles northeast of Paso Robles, the USGS said.

The largest earthquake in Mexico:

today: 2.0 in Cereso del Hongo, Baja California, Mexico. this week: 4.4 in San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico. this month: 5.4 in Cintalapa de Figueroa, Chiapas, Mexico.

On April 5, residents across a wide swath of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania experienced what may have been their first — and possibly not last — earthquake.

The quake's epicenter was about 63 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and had a depth of about 18 miles. Shiveluch volcano, with a height of 10,770 feet, is around 280 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city with a population of about 180,000 in Russia's eastern region of Kamchatka.

Mexico is located along a subduction zone, where one slab of Earth's crust—the Cocos oceanic plate—is sliding under another—the North American continental plate. The friction between the crusts causes strong and devastating earthquakes.

Mexico City earthquake of 1985, severe earthquake that occurred on September 19, 1985, off the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán, causing widespread death and injuries and catastrophic damage in Mexico's capital, Mexico City. The magnitude-8.0 quake occurred at 7:18 am.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Friday night, causing some damage and power outages, officials said. Damage was also reported in the city of Oaxaca, where a hospital suffered cracked walls and power outages were reported.

A moderately strong, 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 9:09 p.m. Pacific time about 14 miles southwest of Lamont, Calif., data from the agency shows.

On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a M_w 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approximately six minutes and caused a tsunami.

Where was the 9.5 earthquake? ›

On May 22, 1960 a great Mw 9.5 earthquake, the largest earthquake ever instrumentally recorded, occurred off the coast of southern Chile. This earthquake generated a tsunami that was destructive not only along the coast of Chile, but also across the Pacific in Hawaii, Japan, and the Philippines.

1861 Sumatra earthquake - Wikipedia.

The quake on September 19 was centered 250 miles west of the city but, due to the relatively unstable ground underneath the city, serious shaking lasted for nearly 3 minutes. The prolonged ground movement caused several old hotels, including the Regis, Versailles and Romano, to crumble.

The longest official earthquake on record was the 2004 Sumatran-Andaman earthquake of the coast of Indonesia, which caused shaking that was reported to last between eight and ten minutes. But the longest ever recorded seismic event was the 32 year-long “slow-slip event” in Sumatra.

A magnitude-4.5 earthquake occurred in northern California at around 20:46 June 21. The epicenter was about 5 km (3 miles) west-southwest of Laytonville.

The quake struck at 9:39 a.m. local time, with the epicenter located about 4 miles west of Lake Elsinore, which lies some 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles, and occurred at a depth of nearly 5.5 miles. The shaking was reportedly felt in parts of the Los Angeles metro area.