M4.3 earthquake 78 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 78 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico on Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 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.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.3 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-12 19:06:05 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.428° N, 95.061° 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, 1.8 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.06
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 139°
- Stations used
- 57
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 149 in the 60 days after this one and 186 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.390 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.088 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 39 km deep · 13 km away
- 3.9126 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 29 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.152 km S of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 30 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.196 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 36 km deep · 69 km away
- 5.0117 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 14 km deep · 65 km away · felt by 1
- 4.4104 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.2104 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.457 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 3.988 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 42 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.576 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 31 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.363 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.448 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 43 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.16 km SSE of Huazantlán del Río, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 31 km deep · 83 km away
- 5.155 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 13 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.066 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 32 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.483 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 26 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.5106 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 36 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.0near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 43 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.040 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 35 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.498 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3303 days ago · 34 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.491 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 25 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.152 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 66 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.355 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 46 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.3102 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 36 km deep · 38 km away
- 3.9105 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.0120 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.2115 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 20 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.141 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 37 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.085 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 55 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.039 km SE of Santiago Astata, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 31 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.299 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 43 km deep · 91 km away
- 5.611 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 35 km deep · 74 km away · felt by 1
- 4.029 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 25 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.055 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 10 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.514 km SE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 32 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.469 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 10 km deep · 37 km away
- 5.1111 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 13 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.1101 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 30 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.041 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 20 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.072 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 13 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.590 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 51 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.092 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 20 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.519 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 51 km deep · 67 km away
- 5.033 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 10 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.080 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 8 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.2112 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 35 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.127 km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 35 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.086 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 34 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.0146 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 18 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.284 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 43 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.1117 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 10 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.918 km ESE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 6 km deep · 67 km away · felt by 1
- 5.6108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 10 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 3
- 4.8119 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 24 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.219 km SE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 41 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.342 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 40 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.144 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 10 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.9102 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 20 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.3116 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 27 km deep · 43 km away
The first 60 of 149.
Before
- 4.42 km SE of Rincón Moreno, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 39 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.152 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 34 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.444 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 41 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.234 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 33 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.564 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 30 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.072 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 22 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.0132 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 28 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.4105 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 40 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.5near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 35 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.7near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 28 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.699 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 49 km deep · 78 km away
- 5.1101 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 17 km deep · 65 km away · felt by 2
- 4.497 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 42 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.267 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 39 km deep · 50 km away
- 5.049 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 48 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.187 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3305 days ago · 31 km deep · 42 km away
- 5.089 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 33 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.2102 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 29 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.288 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 50 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.4102 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3306 days ago · 35 km deep · 83 km away
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