M4.4 earthquake 1 km NNW of Ocós, Guatemala
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 1 km NNW of Ocós, Guatemala on Mon, Sep 9, 2013, 3:16 AM CST (09:16 UTC), 73 km (45 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 29 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.4 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2013-09-09 09:16:05 UTC
- Depth
- 72.8 km (45.2 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 14.525° N, 92.202° W
- Region
- Guatemala
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Normal
- Moment magnitude
- 4.4 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 337°, dip 80°, rake -111°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 221°, dip 23°, rake -27°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- FROM_LOCATION
- Station coverage gap
- 158°
- Stations used
- 53
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 24 in the 60 days after this one and 19 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.025 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4769 days ago · 24 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.111 km SW of Ocós, Guatemala · 4769 days ago · 61 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.014 km SW of Brisas Barra de Suchiate, Mexico · 4769 days ago · 42 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.121 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4769 days ago · 45 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.024 km WSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4769 days ago · 28 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.017 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4768 days ago · 21 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.015 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4766 days ago · 21 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.312 km ENE of Champerico, Guatemala · 4764 days ago · 66 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.112 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4762 days ago · 27 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.222 km SSE of Champerico, Guatemala · 4762 days ago · 50 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.017 km SSE of Ocós, Guatemala · 4760 days ago · 53 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.09 km E of La Libertad, Mexico · 4759 days ago · 81 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.148 km SSW of Ocós, Guatemala · 4759 days ago · 31 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.320 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4758 days ago · 20 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.03 km SE of Ocós, Guatemala · 4756 days ago · 71 km deep · 6 km away
- 4.514 km SE of Ocós, Guatemala · 4749 days ago · 66 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.729 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico · 4746 days ago · 66 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.473 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico · 4744 days ago · 20 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.140 km SSE of Champerico, Guatemala · 4742 days ago · 60 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.132 km S of Champerico, Guatemala · 4738 days ago · 30 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.363 km S of Champerico, Guatemala · 4738 days ago · 35 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.821 km WSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4728 days ago · 45 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.780 km SW of Ocós, Guatemala · 4726 days ago · 12 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.037 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4711 days ago · 90 km deep · 63 km away
Before
- 4.022 km SSW of Ocós, Guatemala · 4771 days ago · 41 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.379 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4772 days ago · 14 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.113 km S of Champerico, Guatemala · 4772 days ago · 44 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.315 km SSE of Champerico, Guatemala · 4772 days ago · 65 km deep · 55 km away · felt by 5
- 4.122 km WSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4772 days ago · 44 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.06 km SE of Champerico, Guatemala · 4772 days ago · 60 km deep · 47 km away · felt by 5
- 5.419 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4772 days ago · 52 km deep · 49 km away · felt by 6
- 6.47 km ESE of Ignacio López Rayón, Mexico · 4772 days ago · 66 km deep · 12 km away · felt by 250 · PAGER yellow
- 4.026 km SW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala · 4777 days ago · 51 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.251 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico · 4779 days ago · 20 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.874 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico · 4783 days ago · 20 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.562 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4785 days ago · 43 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.251 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4791 days ago · 122 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.052 km SSW of Ocós, Guatemala · 4791 days ago · 73 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.074 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico · 4796 days ago · 15 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.079 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico · 4796 days ago · 2 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.372 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala · 4797 days ago · 10 km deep · 88 km away
- 5.077 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico · 4798 days ago · 16 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.336 km SE of Champerico, Guatemala · 4799 days ago · 20 km deep · 77 km away · felt by 3
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