M4.0 earthquake 86 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck 86 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico on Sun, Sep 17, 2017, 12:53 PM CDT (17:53 UTC), 34 km (21 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
- 4.0 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-17 17:53:04 UTC
- Depth
- 34.1 km (21.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.420° N, 94.932° 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 6.5 km horizontally, 10.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 180°
- Stations used
- 34
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 118 in the 60 days after this one and at least 200 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.0146 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 18 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.2108 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3299 days ago · 38 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.284 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 43 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.1117 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 10 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.918 km ESE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 6 km deep · 73 km away · felt by 1
- 5.6108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 10 km deep · 43 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
- 4.219 km SE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 41 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.342 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 40 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.144 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 10 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.9102 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 20 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.3116 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 27 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.3101 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 35 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.377 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 34 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.963 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 55 km deep · 40 km away
- 5.598 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3298 days ago · 30 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.998 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3298 days ago · 18 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.458 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 21 km deep · 38 km away
- 5.0108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 23 km deep · 28 km away · felt by 1
- 4.613 km ENE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 45 km deep · 91 km away · felt by 2
- 4.620 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 35 km deep · 68 km away · felt by 3
- 4.567 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 35 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.022 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 37 km deep · 66 km away
- 3.952 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 36 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.134 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 33 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.2109 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 41 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.259 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 21 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.126 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 35 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.268 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 35 km deep · 28 km away · felt by 2
- 4.1103 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 40 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.155 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 41 km deep · 65 km away · felt by 1
- 5.880 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 54 km deep · 54 km away · felt by 26
- 4.20 km W of San Pedro Huilotepec, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 76 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.07 km SW of Rincón Moreno, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 10 km deep · 96 km away
- 5.880 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 47 km deep · 82 km away · felt by 12
- 4.088 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 10 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.375 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 40 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.197 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 39 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.774 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 45 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.244 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 37 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.376 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 37 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.589 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 44 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.584 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 39 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.584 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 41 km deep · 17 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 · 45 km away
- 4.683 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 28 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.4110 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 35 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.085 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 37 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.166 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 42 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.2104 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3290 days ago · 10 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.08 km SSE of Rincón Moreno, Mexico · 3289 days ago · 10 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.599 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3289 days ago · 38 km deep · 91 km away
- 5.4125 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 11 km deep · 97 km away · felt by 1
- 5.2130 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 10 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.591 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 47 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.466 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3288 days ago · 38 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.7142 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3287 days ago · 19 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.432 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 35 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.9103 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 10 km deep · 76 km away
The first 60 of 118.
Before
- 4.127 km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 35 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.2112 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 35 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.080 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 8 km deep · 52 km away
- 5.033 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 10 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.519 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 51 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.092 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 20 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.590 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 51 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.072 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 13 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.041 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 20 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.1101 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 30 km deep · 61 km away
- 5.1111 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 13 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.469 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 10 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.514 km SE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 32 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.055 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 10 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.029 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 25 km deep · 58 km away
- 5.611 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 35 km deep · 78 km away · felt by 1
- 4.299 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 43 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.5116 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3301 days ago · 34 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.039 km SE of Santiago Astata, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 31 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.085 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 55 km deep · 81 km away
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