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M 5.8mww

20 km S of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico

· 16 km deep · released about 7.6 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.8 (mww)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
97 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1406 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 97 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 89× the energy of this one
  2. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 45× the energy of this one
  3. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.8 about 7.6 kilotons of TNT
  5. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 1.4× more
  6. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16,000× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.3 on 2022-09-19.

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 18.3487, -103.6243. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.3 11 km ENE of Aquila, Mexico
  2. 4.3 31 km W of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico
  3. 4.0 19 km WSW of Cerro de Ortega, Mexico
  4. 4.3 7 km E of Aquila, Mexico
  5. 4.4 19 km SE of Aquila, Mexico
  6. 4.9 12 km SSE of Aquila, Mexico
  7. 4.8 21 km ESE of Aquila, Mexico
  8. 6.2 18 km SE of Aquila, Mexico
  9. 4.0 56 km SE of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico
  10. 4.0 60 km SSE of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico
  11. 4.5 42 km S of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico
  12. 4.5 37 km WSW of Cerro de Ortega, Mexico
  13. 4.4 Colima-Michoacan border region, Mexico
  14. 4.7 41 km SE of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico
  15. 4.1 32 km SSE of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico

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

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