M 7.7 earthquake – 12 km NNE of La Central, Mexico
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Local time: Jun 22, 1932 · 06:59 (UTC-6)
MajorShallow · 25 km
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- Magnitude
- 7.7moment magnitude (mw)
- Depth
- 25 kmShallow earthquake
- Epicenter
- 19.242, -104.38315 km from Manzanillo
- Energy released
- 5.4 megatons of TNTabout 357 × Hiroshima
- Felt reports
- —"Did You Feel It?" responses
- Shaking intensity
- 7.1max. instrumental (MMI)
- Aftershocks
- 1M2.5+ within 190 km, up to 60 days
- Significance
- 912USGS score, 0–1,000+
Not rare around here
An earthquake at least as strong struck within 300 km on Jun 18, 1932.
How strong was it?
Major earthquake. It released 5.4 megatons of TNT, 11,220 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 190 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
- 7.6 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
- 7.6 19 km W of Arteaga, Mexico Jun 7, 1911
In the week before
Earthquakes within 190 km in the 7 days before this one: possible foreshocks.