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Mon, 5 May 2025, 08:37 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 occurred early morning on Monday, May 5th, 2025, at 2:28 am local time near San Cristobal de las Casas, San Cristobal De Casas, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico, as reported by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).
According to preliminary data, the quake was located at an intermediate to considerable depth of 262. km. The strength of the earthquake may have been tempered by its relative great depth below the surface, which makes it feel weaker in absolute terms. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from The Colombian Geological Service (SGC) which listed the quake at magnitude 5.6. Other agencies reporting the same quake include France’s Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique (RéNaSS) at magnitude 5.2, the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake at magnitude 5.8, and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) at magnitude 5.8.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Teopisca (pop. 16,200) located 9 km from

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Mar 29, 10:39 pm (GMT +9)

4.9

134 km64 km (40 mi) to the SW Banda Sea, 209 km west of Tual, Tual, Maluku, Indonesia InfoMar 11, 01:39 am (GMT +9)

4.6

136 km80 km (50 mi) to the SW Banda Sea, 222 km west of Tual, Tual, Maluku, Indonesia InfoMar 1, 06:58 am (GMT +9)

5.5

126 km83 km (52 mi) to the SW Banda Sea, 231 km west of Tual, Tual, Maluku, Indonesia 2 reportsInfoFeb 18, 06:51 pm (Universal Time)

4.9

120 km79 km (49 mi) to the SW Banda Sea, 219 km west of Tual, Tual, Maluku, Indonesia InfoFeb 6, 01:02 am (GMT +9)

4.5

125 km89 km (55 mi) to the SW221 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia InfoOct 22, 2024 11:36 am (GMT +9)

4.9

64 km90 km (56 mi) to the SW Banda Sea, 245 km west of Tual, Tual, Maluku, Indonesia InfoJul 22, 2024 11:47 pm (GMT +9)

5.2

73 km24 km (15 mi) to the N Banda Sea, 175 km west of Tual, Tual, Maluku, Indonesia InfoNov 8, 2023 01:53 pm (GMT +9)

7.1

6 km211 km (131 mi) to the SW Banda Sea, 166 km north of Metang Island, Maluku, Indonesia InfoJan 10, 2023 02:47 am (Jayapura)

7.9

131 km231 km (144 mi) to the SW Banda Sea, 101 km northeast of Metang Island, Maluku, Indonesia 880 reportsInfoNov 23, 2022 01:24 am (Jayapura)

5.6

63 km21 km (13 mi) to the SW Banda Sea, 192 km west of Tual, Tual, Maluku, Indonesia InfoJul 13, 2021 09:45 pm (Jayapura)

5.6

89 km44 km (28 mi) to the NW Banda Sea, 210 km west of Tual, Tual, Maluku,

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Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Apr 11, 08:19 am (Merida)

4.4

173 km29 km (18 mi) to the SW 48 km southeast of Tuxtla, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico InfoMar 29, 11:16 am (Merida)

4.0

163 km40 km (25 mi) to the W 31 km southeast of Tuxtla, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico InfoMar 8, 04:55 pm (Merida)

4.3

143 km79 km (49 mi) to the NE 10.9 km east of Yajalon, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico InfoFeb 8, 08:45 pm (Merida)

4.1

162 km66 km (41 mi) to the SW Chiapas, Mexico InfoJan 11, 09:46 am (Mexico City)

4.0

167 km79 km (49 mi) to the S Mexico: 48 km al NORESTE de MAPASTEPEC, CHIS InfoMay 5, 2023 10:56 pm (Mexico City)

5.0

178 km84 km (52 mi) to the S 71 km southwest of Comitan, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico 3 reportsInfoJul 25, 2021 12:21 am (Mexico City)

5.0

214 km83 km (52 mi) to the S 72 km southwest of Comitan, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico 3 reportsInfoJun 19, 2021 01:57 pm (Mexico City)

5.4

227 km70 km (43 mi) to the S 61 km southwest of Comitan, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico InfoSep 10, 2020 07:47 am (Mexico City)

4.8

196 km79 km (49 mi) to the S 2.7 km northeast of Nueva Palestina, Chiapas, Mexico InfoSep 7, 2017 10:49 pm (GMT -6)

8.0

60 km212 km (132 mi) to the SW North Pacific Ocean, 87 km southwest of Topon, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico 317 reportsInfoAug 22, 2016 05:42 am (Merida)

5.0

197 km40 km (25 mi) to the SE 116 km east of Hermosillo, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico InfoSep 19, 2015 10:02 am (Mexico City)

5.1

193 km69 km (43 mi) to the S Nicaragua

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