On 19 September 2022, a moment magnitude 7.6–7.7 earthquake struck between the Mexican states of Michoacán and Colima at 13:05:06 local time.

The USGS reported the epicentre was 35 km (22 mi) southwest of the town of Aquila (near the municipality of Coalcomán).

[8][9][10] This shallow earthquake occurred in a seismically active zone near the coast of central Mexico.

On 9 October 1995, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck west of the 2022 event, killing 49 people and leaving 1,000 others homeless.

A majority of coseismic slip occurred directly beneath land rather than offshore with a maximum displacement at 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in).

[13][non-primary source needed] The tsunami reached 1.24 m (4 ft 1 in) at a lagoon near Manzanillo, flooding the coastal neighbourhood of Valle de Las Garzas.

[17] A seiche reaching 4 feet (1.2 metres) occurred in Devils Hole at Death Valley National Park in the United States, about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometres) away.

[21] At Point Plaza Bahia, a mall in the city, a gym partially collapsed, killing one person.

[23] A gas tank explosion in Tecomán left four people, including two children, injured.

Debris fell from the temples of San Agustín and La Merced in the city center.

[29] In the state capital, both towers of Tepic Cathedral were heavily damaged, with debris falling from one.

[32] In addition to the areas identified above, the earthquake was felt strongly in parts of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, México, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, and Zacatecas.

[38] A magnitude 6.8 aftershock at 01:16 on 22 September at a depth of 20.7 km (12.9 mi)[39] caused power outages in many areas, including Mexico City,[40] where two people were killed; one after falling from a staircase and another due to a heart attack.