Earthquakes in Mexico

Latest earthquakes in Mexico: 4 in the last 24 hours, 729 in the last 30 days. Updated Nov 10, 2026 00:20 UTC.

Mexico sits on several plates. Along the Pacific coast the Cocos and Rivera plates dive beneath North America, producing frequent strong earthquakes, while in the northwest the Gulf of California is a spreading boundary and the Baja California peninsula moves with the Pacific plate. The USGS catalog lists the magnitude 8.2 Tehuantepec earthquake of September 8, 2017 as the largest in the country in the instrumental record. The magnitude 8.0 Michoacán earthquake of September 19, 1985 killed thousands of people in Mexico City, even though the epicenter was hundreds of kilometers away, because the soft lake-bed soils beneath the capital amplify shaking. Exactly 32 years later, on September 19, 2017, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Puebla, about 48 km deep. Many of Mexico's dangerous earthquakes are of this inland, intermediate-depth type. The list below shows the earthquakes recorded in Mexico over the past 30 days.