M4.0 earthquake 55 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck 55 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico on Sat, Sep 16, 2017, 11:00 AM CDT (16:00 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
- 4.0 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-16 16:00:09 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.595° N, 95.221° 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 3.8 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 167°
- Stations used
- 37
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 120 in the 60 days after this one and 183 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.514 km SE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 32 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.469 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 10 km deep · 47 km away
- 5.1111 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 13 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.1101 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 30 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.041 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 20 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.072 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 13 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.590 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 51 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.092 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 20 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.519 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 51 km deep · 52 km away
- 5.033 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.080 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 8 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.2112 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 35 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.127 km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 35 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.086 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3300 days ago · 34 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.918 km ESE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 6 km deep · 46 km away · felt by 1
- 5.6108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 10 km deep · 79 km away · felt by 3
- 4.8119 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 24 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.219 km SE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 41 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.342 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 40 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.144 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 10 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.9102 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 20 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.3116 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 27 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.3101 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 35 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.377 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3299 days ago · 34 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.963 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 55 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.458 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 21 km deep · 7 km away
- 5.0108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 23 km deep · 65 km away · felt by 1
- 4.613 km ENE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 45 km deep · 81 km away · felt by 2
- 4.620 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 35 km deep · 47 km away · felt by 3
- 4.567 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3298 days ago · 35 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.022 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 37 km deep · 44 km away
- 3.952 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 36 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.134 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 33 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.2109 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 41 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.259 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 21 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.126 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 35 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.268 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 35 km deep · 13 km away · felt by 2
- 4.1103 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 40 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.155 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 41 km deep · 86 km away · felt by 1
- 5.880 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 54 km deep · 86 km away · felt by 26
- 4.94 km SE of Colonia Jordán, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 62 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.82 km N of Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 38 km deep · 98 km away · felt by 1
- 4.25 km WNW of Santa Rosa, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 81 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.13 km NNE of Colonia Jordán, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 54 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.21 km SSW of Colonia Jordán, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 44 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.14 km SSW of Magdalena Tlacotepec, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 17 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.20 km W of San Pedro Huilotepec, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 76 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.07 km SW of Rincón Moreno, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 10 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.03 km NE of Colonia Jordán, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 22 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.375 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 40 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.53 km NNW of Colonia Jordán, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 21 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.28 km N of Santa Rosa, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 10 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.197 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 39 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.774 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 45 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.244 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 37 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.376 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 37 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.589 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 44 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.584 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 39 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.584 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 41 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.22 km NW of Colonia Jordán, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 47 km deep · 90 km away
The first 60 of 120.
Before
- 4.029 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 25 km deep · 27 km away
- 5.611 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 35 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 1
- 4.039 km SE of Santiago Astata, Mexico · 3301 days ago · 31 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.141 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 37 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.0120 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3302 days ago · 54 km deep · 69 km away
- 3.9105 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 54 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3102 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 36 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.355 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 46 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.152 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 66 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.491 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 25 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.040 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 35 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.0near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 43 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.483 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3303 days ago · 26 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.066 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 32 km deep · 27 km away
- 5.155 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 13 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.16 km SSE of Huazantlán del Río, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 31 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.448 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 43 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.363 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 35 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.576 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 31 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.457 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3304 days ago · 10 km deep · 4 km away
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