The 1999 Tehuacán earthquake, or the 1999 Central Mexico earthquake, occurred on June 15 at 15:42 local time (20:42 UTC) near Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, close to the state of Oaxaca.

The earthquake measured 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale.

Fourteen people were reported dead, and about 200 injured, many historic buildings and monuments were damaged.

This was an intraslab earthquake,[5] and the epicenter had some distance from the Middle American Trench.

This was the tenth earthquake since 1864 with magnitude larger than 6.5 and similar location of epicenter.