Mexico earthquakes

M6.1 earthquake 7 km NNE of Ixtepec, Mexico

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck 7 km NNE of Ixtepec, Mexico on Sat, Sep 23, 2017, 7:53 AM CDT (12:53 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 6.1 (mww), strong
Local time: Sat, Sep 23, 2017, 7:53 AM CDT
UTC: 2017-09-23 12:53:01 UTC
Depth: 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 16.626° N, 95.078° W
Region: Mexico
Felt reports: 205
Strongest shaking: VI, strong shaking
PAGER alert: Yellow
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 10268), matched to this event by time and place.

Deaths: 5
Injuries: 7
Damage: Limited (under about $1 million)
Houses destroyed: 11

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA’s full record of this earthquake

Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: VI, strong shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 25.6% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 3.3 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

205 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was VII, very strong shaking.

Estimated impact

The USGS PAGER system estimates deaths and economic losses from the shaking and the population and buildings exposed to it.

Alert level: Yellow: some damage and deaths possible, a local or regional response

Deaths: estimated chance of each range
Range	Chance
Under 1	12%
1 to 10	32%
10 to 100	37%
100 to 1,000	16%
1,000 to 10,000	3%
10,000 to 100,000	Under 1%
100,000 to 10,000,000	Under 1%

Economic losses: estimated chance of each range
Range, million USD	Chance
Under 1	9%
1 to 10	27%
10 to 100	38%
100 to 1,000	21%
1,000 to 10,000	5%
10,000 to 100,000	Under 1%
100,000 to 10,000,000	Under 1%

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Normal
Moment magnitude: 6.1 Mww
Nodal plane 1: Strike 234°, dip 38°, rake -110°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 79°, dip 55°, rake -75°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Location uncertainty: About 3.8 km horizontally, 1.7 km in depth
Magnitude uncertainty: ±0.04
Depth from: From modeling of broad-band P waveforms
Station coverage gap: 31°
Stations used: 434

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 3.1 and up: 61 in the 60 days after this one and 36 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of 61.

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us2000atjv (also filed as iscgem611023352). Read Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 5:54 AM UTC.