M4.1 earthquake 117 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck 117 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico on Sun, Sep 17, 2017, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC), 10 km (6 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
- 2017-09-18 02:14:58 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.030° N, 94.351° 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 8.5 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 170°
- Stations used
- 68
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 103 in the 60 days after this one and at least 200 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.6108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 10 km deep · 34 km away · felt by 3
- 4.8119 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 24 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.4130 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3298 days ago · 29 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.9102 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 20 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.3116 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 27 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.3101 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 35 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.377 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 34 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.963 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 55 km deep · 77 km away
- 5.598 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3298 days ago · 30 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.998 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3298 days ago · 18 km deep · 21 km away
- 5.0108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 23 km deep · 48 km away · felt by 1
- 4.567 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 35 km deep · 94 km away
- 3.952 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 36 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.1131 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3296 days ago · 34 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.1103 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3295 days ago · 34 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.974 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3295 days ago · 68 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.187 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 46 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.2109 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 41 km deep · 20 km away
- 4.1103 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 40 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.155 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 41 km deep · 82 km away · felt by 1
- 5.880 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 54 km deep · 52 km away · felt by 26
- 5.880 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 47 km deep · 37 km away · felt by 12
- 4.088 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 10 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.375 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 40 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.0100 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3293 days ago · 47 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.197 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 39 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.774 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 45 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.376 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 37 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.589 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 44 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.486 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 47 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.584 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 39 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.584 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 41 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.4100 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 30 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.6117 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 19 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.683 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 28 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.7111 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3291 days ago · 10 km deep · 26 km away · felt by 2
- 4.4110 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 35 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.085 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 37 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.166 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3290 days ago · 42 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.2104 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3290 days ago · 10 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.599 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 38 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.151 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 49 km deep · 69 km away
- 5.4125 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 11 km deep · 22 km away · felt by 1
- 5.2130 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 10 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.4124 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 10 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.591 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 47 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.466 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3288 days ago · 38 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.7108 km SW of La Esperanza (El Zapotal), Mexico · 3287 days ago · 23 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.7142 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3287 days ago · 19 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.9103 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 10 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.293 km SW of La Esperanza (El Zapotal), Mexico · 3287 days ago · 10 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.294 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 14 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.0110 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 10 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.490 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 35 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.180 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3286 days ago · 20 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.1115 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3286 days ago · 25 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.265 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3286 days ago · 35 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.499 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3285 days ago · 35 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.978 km SW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3284 days ago · 57 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.598 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3284 days ago · 42 km deep · 23 km away
The first 60 of 103.
Before
- 4.284 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 43 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.2108 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3299 days ago · 38 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.0146 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 18 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.086 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 34 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.2112 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 35 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.080 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 8 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.092 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 20 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.590 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 51 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.1101 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 30 km deep · 24 km away
- 5.1111 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 13 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.469 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 10 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.9104 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3301 days ago · 52 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.299 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 43 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.5116 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3301 days ago · 34 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.085 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 55 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.141 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 37 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.2115 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 20 km deep · 3 km away
- 4.131 km SW of San Luqueño, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 36 km deep · 94 km away
- 3.979 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3302 days ago · 18 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.0120 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 47 km away
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