M3.8 earthquake 12 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck 12 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico on Fri, Sep 8, 2017, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC), 39 km (24 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M6.1 7 km NNE of Ixtepec, Mexico. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.8 (mb, body-wave), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-09 03:39:58 UTC
- Depth
- 38.9 km (24.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 16.096° N, 95.018° 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 6.6 km horizontally, 32.5 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.25
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 137°
- Stations used
- 18
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 195 in the 60 days after this one and 57 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.737 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 56 km deep · 54 km away
- 3.996 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 41 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.360 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 64 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.762 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 51 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.147 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 40 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.169 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 50 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.257 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 33 km deep · 66 km away
- 5.041 km SSW of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 50 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.165 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 38 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.197 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 54 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.155 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 68 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.059 km SSW of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 26 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.971 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 47 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.724 km SSW of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 52 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.593 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 25 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.25 km SE of Chahuite, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 107 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.285 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 10 km deep · 74 km away
- 5.354 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 32 km deep · 42 km away · felt by 2
- 4.2108 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 36 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.452 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 57 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 1
- 4.882 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 41 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 2
- 4.273 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 34 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.267 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 20 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.046 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 35 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.497 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 47 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.387 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 59 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.391 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 32 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.16 km E of San Miguel Chimalapa, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 39 km deep · 76 km away
- 3.954 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 42 km deep · 71 km away
- 5.892 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 29 km deep · 93 km away · felt by 8
- 4.1107 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 44 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.092 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 48 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.1104 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 38 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.147 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 34 km deep · 40 km away
- 5.253 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 58 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.195 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 1 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.957 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 37 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.372 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 29 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.360 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 35 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.334 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 43 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.558 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 24 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.249 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 57 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.762 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 52 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.272 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 47 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.290 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 67 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.4100 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 38 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.288 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 50 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.2102 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 29 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.187 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 31 km deep · 82 km away
- 5.049 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 48 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.267 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 39 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.7near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 28 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.5near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3307 days ago · 35 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.072 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 22 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.564 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 30 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.234 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 33 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.444 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 41 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.152 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 34 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.42 km SE of Rincón Moreno, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 39 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.378 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 10 km deep · 74 km away
The first 60 of 195.
Before
- 4.936 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 63 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.076 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 54 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.085 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 59 km deep · 81 km away
- 5.166 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 58 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 2
- 4.049 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 36 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.465 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 30 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.247 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 32 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.311 km SSE of Santa María Chimalapa, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 105 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.788 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 35 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.760 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 43 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.364 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 62 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.278 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 35 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.178 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 44 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.577 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 52 km deep · 76 km away
- 5.32 km N of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 63 km deep · 16 km away · felt by 4
- 5.058 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 27 km deep · 47 km away · felt by 1
- 4.1101 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 19 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.968 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 21 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.8102 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 30 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.3near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3310 days ago · 51 km deep · 96 km away
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