Zamora de Hidalgo

Earthquakes near Zamora de Hidalgo through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 7 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Zamora de Hidalgo, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 7 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 8.2 on May 31, 1818 (Morelos-Guerrero,Mexico City,Guadalajara).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 2,000 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 14 here, back to 1568. NOAA records deaths in 10 of the events here, 4,788 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.6 on September 19, 2022 (35 km SSW of Aguililla, Mexico). NOAA’s record here begins on December 27, 1568 with an earthquake (Cocula,Jalisco). 9 of the 14 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists one significant eruption of one volcano within 100 km of Zamora de Hidalgo. The largest was Michoacan-Guanajuato on February 20, 1943, at 4 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 103 people by NOAA’s count.

The events

  • September 19, 2022Earthquake · M 7.635 km SSW of Aguililla, Mexico · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • February 20, 1943Eruption · VEI 4Michoacan-Guanajuato · 103 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • June 3, 1932Earthquake · M 8.11932 Jalisco, Mexico Earthquake · 400 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 31, 1818Earthquake · M 8.2 (est.)Morelos-Guerrero,Mexico City,Guadalajara · 2,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • March 25, 1806Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Jalisco,Oaxaca,Michoacan · 2,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • December 27, 1568Earthquake · M 7.2 (est.)Cocula,Jalisco · 60 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Zamora de Hidalgo 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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