106 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was recorded 106 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico at 14:02 UTC on 2026-09-24. This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 85 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 180× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log₁₀E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 14.1475, -93.2130. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

2 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

1. 4.5 121 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico 20:33 UTC
2. 4.2 120 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico 17:30 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 23:53 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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