M4.5 earthquake 3 km N of Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 3 km N of Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico on Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 8:50 AM CDT (13:50 UTC), 107 km (66 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.7 11 km ENE of Tonalá, Mexico. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.5 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2015-07-27 13:50:29 UTC
- Depth
- 106.8 km (66.4 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 16.320° N, 93.974° W
- Region
- Mexico
- Felt reports
- 2
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
Felt at Tuxtla Gutierrez.
From the USGS event page for us200030da. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Did you feel it?
2 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 6.4 km horizontally, 6.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.06
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 91°
- Stations used
- 164
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 5 in the 60 days after this one and 2 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.17 km NE of Benito Juárez, Mexico · 4085 days ago · 182 km deep · 77 km away
- 5.711 km ENE of Tonalá, Mexico · 4078 days ago · 101 km deep · 39 km away · felt by 25
- 4.036 km ESE of Santa María Chimalapa, Mexico · 4071 days ago · 126 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.327 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 4064 days ago · 91 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.323 km N of Nueva Tenochtitlán (Rizo de Oro), Mexico · 4056 days ago · 132 km deep · 43 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us200030da. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 11:37 PM UTC.