M4.6 earthquake 99 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck 99 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico on Mon, Sep 11, 2017, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC), 49 km (30 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.8 80 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico. This one was a foreshock.
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Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.6 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-12 01:47:59 UTC
- Depth
- 48.9 km (30.4 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.231° N, 94.358° 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.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 6.4 km horizontally, 10.1 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.05
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 123°
- Stations used
- 89
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.6 and up: 174 in the 60 days after this one and at least 200 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.5near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 35 km deep · 76 km away
- 5.487 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3305 days ago · 42 km deep · 44 km away · felt by 8
- 4.6103 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3305 days ago · 35 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.4105 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 40 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.0132 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 28 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.072 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 22 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.564 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 30 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.444 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 41 km deep · 72 km away
- 5.089 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 38 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.152 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 34 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.693 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3305 days ago · 43 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.491 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3305 days ago · 38 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.378 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 10 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.390 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 35 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.088 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 39 km deep · 65 km away
- 3.9126 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 29 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.196 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 36 km deep · 13 km away
- 5.0117 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 14 km deep · 20 km away · felt by 1
- 4.4104 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.2104 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.527 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 67 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.457 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 10 km deep · 97 km away
- 3.988 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 42 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.576 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 31 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.363 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.9124 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3304 days ago · 24 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.54 km S of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3304 days ago · 95 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.448 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 43 km deep · 72 km away
- 5.155 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 13 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.7106 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3304 days ago · 41 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.066 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 32 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.483 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 26 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.5106 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 36 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.0118 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3303 days ago · 25 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.0near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 43 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.498 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3303 days ago · 34 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.491 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 25 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.263 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 51 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.152 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 66 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.355 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 46 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.155 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 46 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.3102 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 36 km deep · 40 km away
- 3.9105 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.442 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 63 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.0120 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.979 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3302 days ago · 18 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.131 km SW of San Luqueño, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 36 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.2115 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 20 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.141 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 37 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.085 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 55 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.5116 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3301 days ago · 34 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.299 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 43 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.9104 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3301 days ago · 52 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.469 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 10 km deep · 62 km away
- 5.1111 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 13 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.1101 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 30 km deep · 4 km away
- 4.072 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 13 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.590 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 51 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.092 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 20 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.080 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 8 km deep · 32 km away
The first 60 of 174.
Before
- 5.1101 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 17 km deep · 14 km away · felt by 2
- 4.6102 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3305 days ago · 67 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.497 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 42 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.267 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 39 km deep · 52 km away
- 5.049 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 48 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.187 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 31 km deep · 41 km away
- 5.5107 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 27 km deep · 52 km away · felt by 7
- 4.493 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 55 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.385 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3306 days ago · 46 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.4113 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 44 km deep · 52 km away
- 5.089 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 33 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.2102 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 29 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.288 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 50 km deep · 20 km away
- 4.4102 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 35 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.4100 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 38 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.497 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 36 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.3119 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 46 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.0106 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3306 days ago · 39 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.290 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 67 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.272 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 47 km deep · 64 km away
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