M4.7 earthquake 74 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck 74 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico on Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC), 45 km (28 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.5 12 km E of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.7 (mwr), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-09-24 23:29:30 UTC
- Depth
- 44.9 km (27.9 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 15.577° N, 94.475° 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.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Reverse (thrust)
- Moment magnitude
- 4.7 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 298°, dip 58°, rake 84°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 129°, dip 33°, rake 100°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 4.8 km horizontally, 6.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 94°
- Stations used
- 542
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.7 and up: 92 in the 60 days after this one and at least 200 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.244 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 37 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.376 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 37 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.589 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 44 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.584 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 39 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.584 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 41 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.4100 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 30 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.6117 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 19 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.683 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 28 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.7111 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3291 days ago · 10 km deep · 80 km away · felt by 2
- 4.4110 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 35 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.085 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3291 days ago · 37 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.166 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3290 days ago · 42 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.2104 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3290 days ago · 10 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.599 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 38 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.151 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 49 km deep · 69 km away
- 5.4125 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 11 km deep · 83 km away · felt by 1
- 5.2130 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 10 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.4124 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 10 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.591 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3288 days ago · 47 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.466 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3288 days ago · 38 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.7142 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3287 days ago · 19 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.432 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 35 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.9103 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 10 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.294 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 14 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.0110 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 10 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.490 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3287 days ago · 35 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.812 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3286 days ago · 49 km deep · 76 km away · felt by 1
- 4.180 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3286 days ago · 20 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.1115 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3286 days ago · 25 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.265 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3286 days ago · 35 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.499 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3285 days ago · 35 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.978 km SW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3284 days ago · 57 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.598 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3284 days ago · 42 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.289 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3283 days ago · 28 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.072 km S of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3283 days ago · 9 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.8106 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3283 days ago · 37 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.3136 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3283 days ago · 38 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.448 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3283 days ago · 11 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.258 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3282 days ago · 42 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.158 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3282 days ago · 67 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.0115 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3280 days ago · 27 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.490 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3278 days ago · 38 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.293 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3276 days ago · 47 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.362 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3276 days ago · 44 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.277 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3276 days ago · 32 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.6123 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3274 days ago · 23 km deep · 59 km away · felt by 1
- 4.2116 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3274 days ago · 32 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.080 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3274 days ago · 22 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.567 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3274 days ago · 32 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.675 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3273 days ago · 35 km deep · 13 km away
- 5.512 km E of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3273 days ago · 56 km deep · 84 km away · felt by 34
- 4.3100 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3273 days ago · 28 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.396 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3273 days ago · 40 km deep · 30 km away
- 3.98 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico · 3272 days ago · 8 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.290 km SW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3272 days ago · 43 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.353 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3272 days ago · 18 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.325 km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3270 days ago · 10 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.559 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3270 days ago · 31 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.293 km SW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico · 3269 days ago · 43 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.5101 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3268 days ago · 29 km deep · 29 km away
The first 60 of 92.
Before
- 4.197 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3292 days ago · 39 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.0100 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3293 days ago · 47 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.375 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 40 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.088 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 10 km deep · 43 km away
- 5.880 km SSW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3293 days ago · 47 km deep · 44 km away · felt by 12
- 5.880 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 54 km deep · 11 km away · felt by 26
- 4.155 km SW of La Gloria, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 41 km deep · 21 km away · felt by 1
- 4.1103 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 40 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.268 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3294 days ago · 35 km deep · 77 km away · felt by 2
- 4.126 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 35 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.259 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 21 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.2109 km SW of Cabeza de Toro, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 41 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.187 km SW of El Palmarcito, Mexico · 3295 days ago · 46 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.974 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3295 days ago · 68 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.1103 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3295 days ago · 34 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.1131 km SSW of Manuel Ávila Camacho (Ponte Duro), Mexico · 3296 days ago · 34 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.134 km SSE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 33 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.952 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 36 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.022 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 37 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.567 km SE of El Carrizal, Mexico · 3297 days ago · 35 km deep · 59 km away
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