Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas

Earthquakes near Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 23 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 16 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 8 on September 19, 1985 (1985 Michoacan, Mexico Earthquake).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 9,500 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 21 here, back to 1806. NOAA records deaths in 11 of the events here, 11,737 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.8 on September 22, 2022 (55 km SSW of Aguililla, Mexico). NOAA’s record here begins on March 25, 1806 with an earthquake (Jalisco,Oaxaca,Michoacan). It grows thinner going back: 15 of the 21 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 8 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 3 m, on September 19, 1985.

The events

  • September 22, 2022Earthquake · M 6.855 km SSW of Aguililla, Mexico · 3 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • September 19, 1985Earthquake · M 8.01985 Michoacan, Mexico Earthquake · 9,500 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • September 19, 1985Tsunami · 3 m hereMexicoNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • June 18, 1932Earthquake · M 7.87 km E of Los Tepames, MexicoUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • March 25, 1806Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Jalisco,Oaxaca,Michoacan · 2,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas 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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