M4.1 earthquake 101 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck 101 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico on Sat, Sep 16, 2017, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC), 30 km (18 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
- 4.1 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-16 21:32:25 UTC
- Depth
- 29.7 km (18.4 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.241° N, 94.392° 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 11.9 km horizontally, 10.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.14
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 206°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 27
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 122 in the 60 days after this one and at least 200 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.072 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 13 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.590 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 51 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.092 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 20 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.080 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 8 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.2112 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 35 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.086 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 34 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.0146 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 18 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.2108 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3299 days ago · 38 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.284 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 43 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.1117 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
- 5.6108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 10 km deep · 19 km away · felt by 3
- 4.8119 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 24 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.4130 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3298 days ago · 29 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.9102 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 20 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.3116 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 27 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.3101 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 35 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.377 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 34 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.963 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 55 km deep · 54 km away
- 5.598 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3298 days ago · 30 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.998 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3298 days ago · 18 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.458 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 21 km deep · 100 km away
- 5.0108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 23 km deep · 36 km away · felt by 1
- 4.567 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 35 km deep · 77 km away
- 3.952 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 36 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.232 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3296 days ago · 35 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.1131 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3296 days ago · 34 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.1103 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3295 days ago · 34 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.974 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3295 days ago · 68 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.187 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 46 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.2109 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 41 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.259 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 21 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.268 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 35 km deep · 89 km away · felt by 2
- 4.1103 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 40 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.155 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 41 km deep · 59 km away · felt by 1
- 5.880 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 54 km deep · 28 km away · felt by 26
- 5.880 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 47 km deep · 25 km away · felt by 12
- 4.088 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 10 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.375 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 40 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.0100 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3293 days ago · 47 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.197 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 39 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.774 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 45 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.244 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 37 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.376 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 37 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.589 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 44 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.486 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 47 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.584 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 39 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.584 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 41 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.4100 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 30 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.6117 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 19 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.683 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 28 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.7111 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3291 days ago · 10 km deep · 44 km away · felt by 2
- 4.4110 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 35 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.085 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 37 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.166 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3290 days ago · 42 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.2104 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3290 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.599 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 38 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.151 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 49 km deep · 61 km away
- 5.4125 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 11 km deep · 45 km away · felt by 1
- 5.2130 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 10 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.4124 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 10 km deep · 53 km away
The first 60 of 122.
Before
- 5.1111 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 13 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.469 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 10 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.055 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 10 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.9104 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3301 days ago · 52 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.299 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 43 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.5116 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3301 days ago · 34 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.085 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 55 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.141 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 37 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.2115 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 20 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.131 km SW of San Luqueño, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 36 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.979 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3302 days ago · 18 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.0120 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.442 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 63 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.9105 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.3102 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 36 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.155 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 46 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.355 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 46 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.152 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 66 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.263 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 51 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.491 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 25 km deep · 70 km away
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