M6.0 Earthquake near El Progreso, Mexico — 30 June 2026

Strong earthquakes can cause significant damage in populated areas within roughly 100 km of the epicentre, particularly to older masonry buildings. Landslides and liquefaction become a real risk in susceptible ground.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake radiates roughly 15,080 tons of TNT equivalent in seismic energy.

The USGS assigns this earthquake a significance score of 559, which is below the USGS threshold of more than 600 for its significant-earthquake list. The ranking combines magnitude with available Did You Feel It responses and PAGER alert level; it is not a direct measurement of damage.

That is about 12:29 local solar time at the epicentre, around midday.

This event was shallower than 58% of the 1,038 earthquakes recorded in Mexico in our catalogue and stronger than 99% of them.

The epicentre was located at 24.8239, -108.9280 — 75 km south-southwest of El Progreso. The closest other recorded event was a magnitude 5.3 earthquake 9 km south-southwest of here on 30 June 2026.

The nearest other settlements in our records are Topolobampo (34 km west), Altata (103 km south-southeast), Las Arenitas (166 km south-southeast) and Las Grullas Margen Derecha (188 km northwest).

At 10 km this was a shallow earthquake. Shallow events release their energy close to the surface, so for a given magnitude they produce noticeably stronger shaking — and more damage — than deeper ones. Roughly three quarters of all earthquakes worldwide occur at shallow depths.

This catalogue does not ingest eyewitness responses, so it cannot confirm where this earthquake was felt. Based on magnitude alone, an event this size can produce strong, widely felt shaking. Its shallow focus makes stronger surface shaking more likely than for a deeper event of the same magnitude.

The USGS record does not carry a link to NOAA tsunami information. That field is not an all-clear and does not state whether a tsunami occurred. In this case, a damaging tsunami would be less likely because at M6.0 it falls below the magnitude 6.5 threshold that generally applies before a submarine earthquake displaces enough water to generate a damaging tsunami; it occurred inland rather than beneath the sea floor. For an active coastal alert, use tsunami.gov or your local warning authority.

2 further earthquakes have been recorded within about 150 km of the epicentre in the seven days after this event, the largest of them magnitude 5.3.

9 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or above have been logged within roughly 200 km of this epicentre in our catalogue. The strongest was a magnitude 5.3 event near El Progreso on 30 June 2026. This M6.0 event released about 11 times more energy than that event.

1 earthquakes have been recorded within 100 km of this epicentre in the past year, 0 of them in the past 30 days.

This earthquake is part of the June 2026 worldwide record, and of earthquakes in Mexico during June 2026. Browse the full monthly archive to compare periods.