Acapulco de Juárez

Earthquakes near Acapulco de Juárez through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 35 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Acapulco de Juárez, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 17 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 8.6 on March 28, 1787 (San Marcos, Oaxaca).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Acapulco de Juárez in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.3 on July 6, 1964 (10 km SW of Villa Nicolás Bravo, Mexico), for which NOAA records 78 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 51 here, back to 1697. NOAA records deaths in 19 of the events here, 229 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.5 on January 2, 2026 (0 km W of San Marcos, Mexico). NOAA’s record here begins on February 25, 1697 with an earthquake (Mexico City,Acapulco). 27 of the 51 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists 16 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Acapulco de Juárez, and 7 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 4 m, on September 1, 1754.

The events

  • January 2, 2026Earthquake · M 6.50 km W of San Marcos, Mexico · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • July 6, 1964Earthquake · M 7.310 km SW of Villa Nicolás Bravo, Mexico · 78 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • April 7, 1845Earthquake · M 8.3 (est.)Mexico CityNOAA NCEI
  • March 28, 1787Earthquake · M 8.6 (est.)San Marcos, Oaxaca · 11 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • September 1, 1754Tsunami · 4 m hereS. MexicoNOAA NCEI
  • February 25, 1697EarthquakeMexico City,AcapulcoNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Acapulco de Juárez when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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