M 5.0 earthquake – 14 km SW of La Central, Mexico
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Local time: Oct 16, 1995 · 12:18 (UTC-6)
ModerateShallow · 33 km
Reviewed by a seismologist
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- Magnitude
- 5.0body-wave magnitude (mb)
- Depth
- 33 kmShallow earthquake
- Epicenter
- 19.034, -104.51620 km from Manzanillo
- Energy released
- 477 tons of TNTless than one Hiroshima bomb
- Felt reports
- —"Did You Feel It?" responses
- Shaking intensity
- —not estimated
- Aftershocks
- 1M2.5+ within 30 km, up to 60 days
- Significance
- 385USGS score, 0–1,000+
Not rare around here
An earthquake at least as strong struck within 300 km on Oct 12, 1995.
How strong was it?
Moderate earthquake. It released 477 tons of TNT, 1 times the energy of a magnitude 5.0. Bars use the magnitude scale: every step is about 32 times more energy.
Aftershocks
1 earthquakes of M2.5+ within 30 km in the 60 days after.
The strongest earthquakes within 300 km
Since 1900, around Mexico.
- 8.1 1932 Jalisco, Mexico Earthquake Jun 3, 1932
- 8.0 1995 Colima-Jalisco, Mexico Earthquake Oct 9, 1995
- 8.0 1985 Michoacan, Mexico Earthquake Sep 19, 1985
- 7.8 7 km E of Los Tepames, Mexico Jun 18, 1932
- 7.7 12 km NNE of La Central, Mexico Jun 22, 1932
- 7.6 35 km SSW of Aguililla, Mexico Sep 19, 2022
- 7.6 16 km SSW of Cuyutlán, Mexico Jan 22, 2003
- 7.6 21 km ESE of Coalcomán de Vázquez Pallares, Mexico Apr 15, 1941
In the week before
Earthquakes within 30 km in the 7 days before this one: possible foreshocks.