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Moderate mag. 4.2 earthquake – 138 km southwest of Tapachula, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico, on Friday, Jul 18, 2025, at 05:27 pm (GMT -6)

Published: 18 July 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Jul 18, 05:19 pm (GMT -6)

4.9

10 km14 km (8.9 mi) to the N North Pacific Ocean, 125 km southwest of Tapachula, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico  I FELT IT InfoJul 15, 03:31 pm (GMT -6)

4.3

10 km19 km (12 mi) to the SW North Pacific Ocean, 155 km southwest of Tapachula, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico  I FELT IT InfoJul 12, 11:17 am (GMT -6)

4.0

9.3 km71 km (44 mi) to the NW North Pacific Ocean, 134 km west of Tapachula, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico  I FELT IT – 1 reportInfoJul 11, 08:12 pm (GMT -6)

4.0

10 km58 km (36 mi) to the NE North Pacific Ocean, 81 km southwest of Tapachula, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico  I FELT IT – 2 reportsInfoJul 10, 10:44 pm (GMT -6)

4.1

8.8 km75 km (47 mi) to the N Offshore Chiapas, Mexico InfoJul 4, 03:10 am (GMT -6)

4.2

10.4 km69 km (43 mi) to the E Offshore Guatemala InfoJul 1, 07:48 am (GMT -6)

4.2

22 km57 km (35 mi) to the NE Offshore Chiapas, Mexico InfoJul 1, 07:35 am (GMT -6)

4.2

19 km28 km (17 mi) to the NE North Pacific Ocean, 87 km southwest of Brisas Barra de Suchiate, Mexico InfoOct 25, 2024 08:46 am (GMT -6)

5.8

17 km51 km (32 mi) to the E 69 km SW of Brisas Barra De Suchiate, Mexico 14 reportsInfoMay 12, 2024 05:39 am (GMT -6)

6.2

10 km55 km (34 mi) to the NE North Pacific Ocean, 87 km southwest of Tapachula, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico 312 reportsInfoNov 19, 2019 10:27 pm (GMT -6)

6.2

10 km18 km (11 mi) to the

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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA NOT DETECTED

Published: 18 July 2025
Categories: Global Volcano Activity

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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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Planchón-Peteroa Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NO ERUPTION

Published: 18 July 2025
Categories: Global Volcano Activity

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