M5.1 earthquake 31 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck 31 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico on Fri, Sep 8, 2017, 9:25 AM CDT (14:25 UTC), 83 km (51 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
- 5.1 (mb), moderate
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-08 14:25:03 UTC
- Depth
- 82.7 km (51.4 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 15.884° N, 94.221° W
- Region
- Mexico
- Felt reports
- 1
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
1 person reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was V, moderate shaking.

How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 8.0 km horizontally, 7.2 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.06
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 150°
- Stations used
- 200
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 2.1 and up: at least 201 in the 60 days after this one and 57 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.0103 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 41 km deep · 82 km away
- 5.375 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 60 km deep · 44 km away · felt by 3
- 4.279 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 36 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.3near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 51 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.176 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 69 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.993 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 64 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.8102 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 30 km deep · 95 km away
- 5.0113 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 31 km deep · 86 km away
- 5.121 km SW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 86 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.899 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 35 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.968 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 21 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.1101 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 19 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.3116 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 36 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.428 km SW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 70 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.985 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 37 km deep · 57 km away
- 5.058 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 27 km deep · 79 km away · felt by 1
- 4.2116 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 33 km deep · 91 km away
- 5.32 km N of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 63 km deep · 90 km away · felt by 4
- 4.577 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 52 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.7101 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 38 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.178 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 44 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.278 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 35 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.364 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 62 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.894 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 53 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.582 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 57 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.760 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 43 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.788 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 35 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.465 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 57 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.862 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 32 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.1102 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 49 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.247 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 32 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.465 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 30 km deep · 41 km away
- 3.9101 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 47 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.115 km SSE of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 68 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.179 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 32 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.049 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 36 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.227 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 80 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.9109 km SW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 20 km deep · 90 km away
- 5.166 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 58 km deep · 67 km away · felt by 2
- 4.085 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 43 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.085 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 59 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.076 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 54 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.936 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 63 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.1113 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 66 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.812 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 39 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.2104 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 10 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.737 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 56 km deep · 36 km away
- 3.996 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 41 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.7113 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 28 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.297 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 42 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.1116 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 42 km deep · 89 km away
- 5.595 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 29 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.360 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 64 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.388 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 38 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.057 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3308 days ago · 69 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.3112 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 36 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.762 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 51 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.147 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 40 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.575 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 53 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.169 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3308 days ago · 50 km deep · 42 km away
The first 60 of at least 201.
Before
- 4.657 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 53 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.493 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 35 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.5108 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 35 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.3103 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 30 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.365 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 59 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.7110 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 35 km deep · 87 km away · felt by 3
- 4.363 km WSW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 75 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.381 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 37 km deep · 67 km away
- 5.290 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 57 km deep · 64 km away · felt by 3
- 4.5near the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 22 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.799 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 41 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.824 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 68 km deep · 37 km away · felt by 1
- 5.049 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 24 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.260 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 44 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.6120 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 34 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.277 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 65 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.340 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 10 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.561 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3309 days ago · 76 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.682 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 54 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.592 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3309 days ago · 67 km deep · 61 km away
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