M3.9 earthquake 8 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake struck 8 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico on Sat, Oct 14, 2017, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC), 8 km (5 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 86 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.9 (mb), minor
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-10-14 19:33:40 UTC
- Depth
- 7.5 km (4.7 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 16.131° N, 95.043° 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 4.8 km horizontally, 5.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.21
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 130°
- 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: 28 in the 60 days after this one and 101 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.353 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3272 days ago · 18 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.325 km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3271 days ago · 10 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.559 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3270 days ago · 31 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.241 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3266 days ago · 32 km deep · 34 km away · felt by 1
- 4.24 km E of San Blas Atempa, Mexico · 3264 days ago · 53 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.16 km W of Santa Rosa, Mexico · 3264 days ago · 51 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.636 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3262 days ago · 39 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.029 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3260 days ago · 23 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.04 km SSW of Santa María Mixtequilla, Mexico · 3258 days ago · 45 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.31 km WSW of Huazantlán del Río, Mexico · 3257 days ago · 10 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.25 km SW of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3257 days ago · 28 km deep · 21 km away · felt by 2
- 4.184 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3255 days ago · 28 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.38 km SSW of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3254 days ago · 22 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.64 km SSE of Huazantlán del Río, Mexico · 3254 days ago · 19 km deep · 9 km away
- 4.260 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3251 days ago · 45 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.33 km NW of Santa María Jalapa del Marqués, Mexico · 3247 days ago · 10 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.287 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3246 days ago · 48 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.986 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3240 days ago · 51 km deep · 81 km away · felt by 3
- 4.182 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3240 days ago · 10 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.145 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3239 days ago · 39 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.836 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3238 days ago · 50 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.147 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3235 days ago · 26 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.25 km NNE of Colonia Jordán, Mexico · 3232 days ago · 10 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.530 km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3228 days ago · 35 km deep · 27 km away · felt by 1
- 4.391 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3227 days ago · 38 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.37 km W of Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico · 3226 days ago · 46 km deep · 34 km away · felt by 1
- 4.279 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3224 days ago · 26 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.515 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3214 days ago · 35 km deep · 37 km away
Before
- 4.396 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3273 days ago · 40 km deep · 96 km away
- 5.512 km E of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3273 days ago · 56 km deep · 22 km away · felt by 34
- 4.675 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3273 days ago · 35 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.567 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3274 days ago · 32 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.26 km W of Santa Rosa, Mexico · 3274 days ago · 10 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.15 km E of Colonia Jordán, Mexico · 3274 days ago · 45 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.11 km WNW of San Pedro Comitancillo, Mexico · 3275 days ago · 18 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.277 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3276 days ago · 32 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.362 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3276 days ago · 44 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.22 km ENE of Colonia Jordán, Mexico · 3277 days ago · 35 km deep · 33 km away · felt by 1
- 4.490 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3278 days ago · 38 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.15 km WNW of Santa María Xadani, Mexico · 3278 days ago · 10 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.19 km NNW of Santo Domingo Chihuitán, Mexico · 3280 days ago · 101 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.32 km NE of Magdalena Tlacotepec, Mexico · 3280 days ago · 14 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.33 km SW of Magdalena Tlacotepec, Mexico · 3280 days ago · 10 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.16 km SW of El Espinal, Mexico · 3281 days ago · 10 km deep · 36 km away · felt by 1
- 4.158 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3282 days ago · 67 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.258 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3282 days ago · 42 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.33 km ENE of San Pedro Comitancillo, Mexico · 3283 days ago · 10 km deep · 42 km away · felt by 1
- 4.448 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3283 days ago · 11 km deep · 41 km away
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