Mexico earthquakes

M6.0 earthquake 83 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck 83 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico on Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 2:07 AM CDT (07:07 UTC), 16 km (10 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 6.0 (Mww, W-phase moment), strong
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 2:07 AM CDT
UTC: 2016-04-25 07:07:08 UTC
Depth: 16.0 km (9.9 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 14.479° N, 93.151° W
Region: Mexico
Felt reports: 7
Strongest shaking: IV, light shaking
PAGER alert: Green
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
6.0	Mww, W-phase moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
5.97	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
5.7	Mwb, body-wave moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Moment tensor · Reviewed

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Felt at San Cristobal de las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez. Also felt at Atitlan, Guatemala City, La Esperanza, Quetzaltenango and San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala.

From the USGS event page for us20005li9. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: IV, light shaking
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

7 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was V, moderate shaking.

Estimated impact

The USGS PAGER system estimates deaths and economic losses from the shaking and the population and buildings exposed to it.

Alert level: Green: little or no damage or loss of life expected

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Reverse (thrust)
Moment magnitude: 6.0 Mww
Nodal plane 1: Strike 111°, dip 69°, rake 84°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 308°, dip 22°, rake 106°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Location uncertainty: About 3.5 km horizontally, 1.7 km in depth
Depth from: From modeling of broad-band P waveforms
Station coverage gap: 67°
Stations used: 586

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 3.0 and up: 15 in the 60 days after this one and 5 in the 30 days before it.

After

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20005li9 (also filed as gcmt20160425070709, iscgem608591243). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC.