M4.3 earthquake 62 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 62 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico on Fri, Sep 8, 2017, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC), 51 km (31 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
- 4.3 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-08 05:43:46 UTC
- Depth
- 50.6 km (31.4 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.436° N, 94.060° 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 12.2 km horizontally, 18.2 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.13
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 192°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 35
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: at least 201 in the 60 days after this one and 14 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.076 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 30 km deep · 70 km away · felt by 1
- 4.461 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 47 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.289 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 47 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.368 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 73 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.679 km SW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 55 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.288 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 36 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.3111 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 40 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.688 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 49 km deep · 53 km away · felt by 1
- 4.361 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 70 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.386 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 47 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.092 km SW of La Esperanza (El Zapotal), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 63 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.295 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 46 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.268 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 44 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.185 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 61 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.299 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 36 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.193 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 42 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.469 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 35 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.472 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 48 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.185 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 38 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.375 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 37 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.578 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 42 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.2143 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 46 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.344 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 76 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.3111 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 30 km deep · 50 km away
- 5.3near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 51 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.566 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 66 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.635 km SW of San Luqueño, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 53 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.499 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 49 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.195 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 56 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.580 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 30 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.592 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 67 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.682 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 54 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.561 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 76 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.340 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 10 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.277 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 65 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.6120 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 34 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.260 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 44 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.5129 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 17 km deep · 72 km away
- 5.049 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 24 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.824 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 68 km deep · 84 km away · felt by 1
- 4.799 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 41 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.5near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 22 km deep · 88 km away
- 5.290 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 57 km deep · 55 km away · felt by 3
- 4.381 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 37 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.363 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 75 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.7110 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 35 km deep · 49 km away · felt by 3
- 4.365 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 59 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.3103 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 30 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.5134 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 27 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.5108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 35 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.493 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 35 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.657 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 53 km deep · 8 km away
- 5.131 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 83 km deep · 53 km away · felt by 1
- 5.0103 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 41 km deep · 69 km away
- 5.375 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 60 km deep · 36 km away · felt by 3
- 4.279 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 36 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.3near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 51 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.2142 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 27 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.6141 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 10 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.176 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 69 km deep · 17 km away
The first 60 of at least 201.
Before
- 4.981 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 68 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.762 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 61 km deep · 87 km away
- 5.1112 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 44 km deep · 57 km away
- 5.298 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 46 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.681 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 40 km deep · 35 km away
- 5.2113 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 49 km deep · 63 km away · felt by 2
- 4.829 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 42 km deep · 83 km away
- 5.373 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 51 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 2
- 4.848 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 63 km deep · 21 km away
- 5.7100 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 36 km deep · 38 km away · felt by 26
- 8.22017 Tehuantepec, Mexico Earthquake · 3309 days ago · 47 km deep · 49 km away · felt by 2,651 · PAGER red · tsunami flag
- 4.4103 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 35 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.5117 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3311 days ago · 31 km deep · 61 km away · felt by 1
- 4.114 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3316 days ago · 97 km deep · 78 km away
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