240 km SW of La Cruz de Loreto, Mexico

2025-05-13 20:43 UTC · 12 km deep · released about 11 kilotons of TNT

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When: 2025-05-13 20:43 UTC
Magnitude: M 5.9 (mww)
Depth: 12 km below the surface
Felt: 6 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking: intensity III (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert: green
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 435 days ago · we first saw it 435 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 6 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 63× the energy of this one
Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 32× the energy of this one
Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 5.9 about 11 kilotons of TNT
Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 this one released 1.4× more
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 2× 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 6.6 on 2016-01-21 — about 11 times the energy of this one.

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

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Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

4.0 267 km WSW of La Cruz de Loreto, Mexico 10:02 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 14:37 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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