M4.4 earthquake 97 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 97 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico on Mon, Sep 11, 2017, 2:57 AM CDT (07:57 UTC), 36 km (22 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.8 80 km SSW of La Gloria, 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), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-11 07:57:40 UTC
- Depth
- 35.9 km (22.3 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.172° N, 94.235° W
- Region
- Mexico
- 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
- Oblique normal
- Moment magnitude
- 4.4 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 68°, dip 41°, rake -139°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 304°, dip 65°, rake -57°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 6.6 km horizontally, 8.5 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 147°
- Stations used
- 259
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 184 in the 60 days after this one and 190 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.4100 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 38 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.4102 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 35 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.288 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 50 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.2102 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 29 km deep · 53 km away
- 5.089 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 33 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.4113 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 44 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.385 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3306 days ago · 46 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.493 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 55 km deep · 38 km away
- 5.5107 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 27 km deep · 38 km away · felt by 7
- 4.187 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 31 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.267 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 39 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.497 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 42 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.6102 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3305 days ago · 67 km deep · 18 km away
- 5.1101 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 17 km deep · 29 km away · felt by 2
- 4.699 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 49 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.5near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 35 km deep · 90 km away
- 5.487 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3305 days ago · 42 km deep · 29 km away · felt by 8
- 4.6103 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3305 days ago · 35 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.4105 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 40 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.0132 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 28 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.072 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 22 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.564 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 30 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.444 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 41 km deep · 81 km away
- 5.089 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 38 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.152 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 34 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.693 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3304 days ago · 43 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.491 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3304 days ago · 38 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.378 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 10 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.390 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.088 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 39 km deep · 80 km away
- 3.9126 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 29 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.196 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 36 km deep · 26 km away
- 5.0117 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 14 km deep · 31 km away · felt by 1
- 4.4104 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.03 km ESE of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.2104 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.527 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 67 km deep · 88 km away
- 3.988 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 42 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.576 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 31 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.363 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 89 km away
- 3.9124 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3304 days ago · 24 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.54 km S of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3304 days ago · 95 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.448 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 43 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.7106 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3303 days ago · 41 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.066 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 32 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.483 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 26 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.5106 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 36 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.0118 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3303 days ago · 25 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.0near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 43 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.498 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3303 days ago · 34 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.491 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 25 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.263 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 51 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.152 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 66 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.355 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 46 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.137 km SSW of La Esperanza (El Zapotal), Mexico · 3302 days ago · 35 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.155 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 46 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.3102 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 36 km deep · 55 km away
- 3.9105 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.442 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 63 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.0120 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 58 km away
The first 60 of 184.
Before
- 4.3119 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 46 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.0106 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3306 days ago · 39 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.272 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 47 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.762 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 52 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.249 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 57 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.990 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 59 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.0117 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 35 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.3110 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 35 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.5110 km SW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3306 days ago · 54 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.360 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 35 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.372 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 29 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.699 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 43 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.2120 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3307 days ago · 13 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.598 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 53 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.957 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 37 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.195 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 1 km deep · 74 km away
- 5.253 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 58 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.5124 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 25 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.3124 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 39 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.0106 km SW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3307 days ago · 47 km deep · 9 km away
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