Middle America

M6 earthquake beneath northern Venezuela was felt up to 700 km away

Part of a dense, deep cluster of seismicity associated with a lithospheric tear

Jun 23 •

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M4.9 earthquake at the Cierro Prieto geothermal field, Baja California, Mexico

A moderate earthquake in a huge geothermal energy field

May 13 •

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M6.4 earthquake shakes coast of Mexico, Guatemala

Normal-mechanism event in the sinking Cocos slab at the Middle America Trench

May 12 •

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M6.1 in sinking slab shakes Guatemala

A reminder of the high seismic hazard and risk faced by the region

Jan 27 •

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M5.8 earthquake shakes Mexico City

Likely caused by the bending as the subducting plate abruptly steepens

Dec 8, 2023 •

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M4.8 earthquake near California-Mexico border

Near the northern end of the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake

Dec 1, 2023 •

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M5.4 earthquake shakes Jamaica

Transpressive region hosted similar magnitude earthquakes in 1988 and 1993

Oct 30, 2023 •

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M5.5 offshore of Panama

An unusual thrust earthquake along a mostly "quiet" subduction zone

Aug 29, 2023 •

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Shaking across Central America caused by M6.5 quake in sinking slab

Possibility of fatalities and liquefaction but no confirmed reports

Jul 19, 2023 •

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M6.3 earthquake offshore Mexico possible aftershock of 2017 M8.1 Chiapas quake

Was it intraslab, like the M8.1, or on the plate boundary?

Jul 14, 2023 •

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Unusual M6.6 earthquake shakes much of the Caribbean

Reflects diffuse deformation of the oceanic crust, similar to the 2012 M8.6 Indian Ocean earthquake

Jul 10, 2023 •

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M6.6 earthquake strikes offshore Colombia and Panama

Quake occurred in the North Panama Deformed Belt, a developing subduction zone between the Caribbean and Panama Plates.

May 25, 2023 •

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