Earthquakes near Colima, 2017–2026

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 2 deaths for it. One earthquake here in these years is on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. 2025 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 4 of the 14. NOAA lists one tsunami from elsewhere that reached the coast within 100 km of Colima with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 1.03 m, on January 15, 2022.

• January 12, 2025Earthquake · M 6.218 km SE of Aquila, MexicoUSGS
• September 19, 2022Earthquake · M 7.635 km SSW of Aguililla, Mexico · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• January 15, 2022Tsunami · 1.03 m hereTonga IslandsNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Colima 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 are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
• 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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