Colima

Earthquakes near Colima, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 22 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Colima, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 12 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 8.1 on June 3, 1932 (1932 Jalisco, Mexico Earthquake).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded one earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Colima in the last 30 days.

The latest: magnitude 4.8 on October 2 (35 km SSW of El Colomo, Mexico).

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 8 on September 19, 1985 (1985 Michoacan, Mexico Earthquake), for which NOAA records 9,500 deaths. 10 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 9 of the events here, 10,197 in all. The ten years with the most magnitude 6+ earthquakes were 1927–1936, with 9 of the 22. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.6 on September 19, 2022 (35 km SSW of Aguililla, Mexico). NOAA lists 6 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Colima, and 4 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 10.9 m, on October 9, 1995. The deadliest, on June 22, 1932, killed 75 people here by NOAA’s runup records.

The events

  • September 19, 2022Earthquake · M 7.635 km SSW of Aguililla, Mexico · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 9, 1995Tsunami · 10.9 m hereS. MexicoNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • September 19, 1985Earthquake · M 8.01985 Michoacan, Mexico Earthquake · 9,500 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • June 22, 1932Tsunami · 10 m hereCentral Mexico · 75 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • June 3, 1932Earthquake · M 8.11932 Jalisco, Mexico Earthquake · 400 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • 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 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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