M 7.8 earthquake – 7 km E of Los Tepames, Mexico
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Local time: Jun 18, 1932 · 04:12 (UTC-6)
MajorShallow · 15 km
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- Magnitude
- 7.8moment magnitude (mw)
- Depth
- 15 kmShallow earthquake
- Epicenter
- 19.087, -103.55124 km from Colima
- Energy released
- 7.6 megatons of TNTabout 504 × Hiroshima
- Felt reports
- —"Did You Feel It?" responses
- Shaking intensity
- 7.0max. instrumental (MMI)
- Aftershocks
- 2M2.5+ within 218 km, up to 60 days
- Significance
- 936USGS score, 0–1,000+
Not rare around here
An earthquake at least as strong struck within 300 km on Jun 3, 1932.
How strong was it?
Major earthquake. It released 7.6 megatons of TNT, 15,849 times the energy of a magnitude 5.0. Bars use the magnitude scale: every step is about 32 times more energy.
Aftershocks
2 earthquakes of M2.5+ within 218 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
- 7.7 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 7 km N of Pantla, Mexico Sep 21, 1985
- 7.6 12 km SSE of Vallecitos de Zaragoza, Mexico Mar 14, 1979