Why Does Mexico Get Earthquakes

Map of earthquakes in Mexico from 1900 to 2022

Location of G 8.0+ earthquakes in Mexico with year of occurrence

This is a fractional list of earthquakes in Mexico. This list considers every notable earthquake felt or with its epicenter within Mexico's current borders and maritime areas.

Geology [edit]

Mexico lies within two seismically active earthquake zones. The Baja California peninsula lies virtually the boundary of the Pacific Plate and the Northward American Plate, while southern Mexico lies only north of the boundary betwixt the N American Plate and the Cocos and Rivera tectonic plates. The Cocos Plate is subducting nether the Northward American Plate at a rate of 67 mm (0.220 ft) per yr, while the Pacific and Rivera plates are moving northwest relative to the Northward American Plate. Southern United mexican states as well contains numerous faults, which causes that section of the country to take high tectonic action. Northeastern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula are not as seismically active every bit the area close to the boundary between the North American and Cocos plates, but destructive earthquakes can even so occur in those areas.

Earthquakes [edit]

Date	Area	Mag.	MMI	Deaths	Injuries	Total damage / notes	Ref
2022-09-22	Michoacán	6.8 Thouw	Seven	three	5	Aftershock
2022-09-19	Michoacán	seven.6 Mwest	VIII	2	35	Severe damage	[1]
2022-06-21	Jalisco	2.four Mw				Severe damage	[2] [iii]
2022-03-03	Veracruz	5.7 Mwest	IV			Pocket-sized impairment	[4] [five]
2021-09-07	Guerrero	7.0 Mw	VIII	13	23	Three missing, damage to viii,700 buildings
2020-06-23	Oaxaca	vii.four Mdue west	IX	x	25
2018-02-16	Oaxaca	7.2 Mw	Vii	14	17	Well-nigh of casualties afterwards a helicopter crash
2017-09-23	Oaxaca	6.i 1000due west	VII	6	vii	vii,000 displaced	[6] [7] [eight]
2017-09-xix	Mexico City, Morelos, Puebla	seven.1 Mw	IX	370	half dozen,011
2017-09-07	Chiapas, Oaxaca	viii.2 Mdue west	9	98	300	Tsunami
2015-11-23	Guerrero	5.v Mw	4	2			[nine]
2014-07-07	Chiapas	6.9 Yardw	Seven	5	12
2014-05-08	Guerrero	6.6 Mwestward	Seven
2014-04-18	Guerrero	7.2 Grandwestward	VII		1
2012-03-20	Guerrero, Oaxaca	7.iv Grandw	8	ii	11
2011-12-ten	Guerrero	6.5 Mw	VII	3	10
2011-05-05	Guerrero	5.7 Mw	Six
2010-06-30	Oaxaca	6.2 Chiliadw		1
2010-04-04	Baja California	7.2 Mdue west	IX	2–4	100–233	$1.15 billion
2009-04-27	Guerrero	5.8 One thousandw	V	3		Four houses destroyed	[10] [11]
2003-01-22	Colima	7.five 1000w	VIII	29	300	Severe / tsunami
1999-12-29	Guerrero	5.nine Kwest	V		1	Small damage	[12]
1999-09-thirty	Oaxaca	vii.4 Mw	8	35
1999-06-15	Puebla	7.0 Mw	Eight	fourteen	200	MXN $200,000,000	[13]
1997-01-11	Michoacán	vii.2 Chiliadw	VIII	1		Damage at Arteaga	[14]
1995-10-21	Chiapas	7.1 Mw	VI
1995-ten-09	Colima, Jalisco	eight.0 Yardwestward	VIII	49–58	100	Tsunami
1995-09-xiv	Guerrero	7.iv Mdue west	VII	iii
1989-04-25	Guerrero	half dozen.9 Mw	VII	3	6–350		[15] [xvi]
1985-09-19	Michoacán, Mexico City	8.0 Mw	IX	5,000–45,000	30,000	Extreme / tsunami
1981-10-25	Michoacán	seven.ii Mdue west		three
1980-10-24	Oaxaca	7.ii Yardw	IX	65–300+	Many	$5 million
1979-10-15	Baja California	6.four Mw	Ix		91
1979-03-14	Guerrero	seven.6 Gw	8	5	35
1973-08-28	Puebla, Veracruz	seven.1 ML	Viii	539–one,000	Thousands	Severe
1973-01-30	Colima	7.5 Ms		56	390	Moderate / non-destructive seismic sea wave	NGDC harvnb error: no target: CITEREFNGDC (aid)
1968-08-02	Guerrero, Oaxaca	seven.3	VII
1965-08-23	Oaxaca	7.5 Mw		6
1964-07-06	Guerrero	7.four Ms	Nine	forty
1959-08-26	Veracruz	6.4 1000w	8	25	200	Severe
1957-07-28	Guerrero, United mexican states City	7.9 Msouthward	Vii	54–160	Many	Farthermost / seismic sea wave	NGDC harvnb error: no target: CITEREFNGDC (assistance)
1941-04-15	Colima	seven.6 Mw	Ix	xc
1937-07-26	Puebla, Veracruz	7.3 Ms	Ix	34
1932-06-22	Colima	7.0 Mw	VIII			Tsunami
1932-06-18	Colima	7.8 Mw	8			Seismic sea wave
1932-06-03	Jalisco	8.1 Mw	X	400		Tsunami
1931-01-xv	Oaxaca	7.8 Chiliadwest	Ten	114
1920-01-03	Puebla, Veracruz	6.four Ms	X–XII	648–4,000	167		NGDC harvnb error: no target: CITEREFNGDC (aid)
1912-eleven-19	State of United mexican states	7.0	VIII	140			[17]
1911-12-sixteen	Guerrero	7.6	9
1911-06-07	Michoacán	7.6	9	45
1909-07-30	Guerrero	7.6	IX
1907-04-xv	Guerrero	7.7	VIII
1900-01-20	Colima	7.four	VII
1899-01-24	Guerrero	seven.five	Seven
1897-06-05	Oaxaca	7.four	VII
1894-11-02	Guerrero, Oaxaca	7.4	Viii
1892-02-24	Baja California	vii.1–7.2	10	0
1890-12-02	Guerrero, Oaxaca	7.three	Seven
1889-09-06	Guerrero	vii.1	Half dozen
1887-05-29	Guerrero	7.3	Eight
1887-05-03	Sonora	seven.6 Mw		51
1882-07-19	Guerrero, Oaxaca	seven.5	IX
1879-05-17	Puebla	7.1	VIII
1875-03-09	Colima, Jalisco	seven.four	Seven
1875-02-11	Jalisco	seven.five	8
1874-03-sixteen	Guerrero	vii.3	VII
1872-03-27	Oaxaca	vii.4	VI
1870-05-xi	Oaxaca	seven.eight	Ix
1864-10-03	Puebla, Veracruz	vii.iii	VIII
1858-06-19	Michoacán	7.five	Ix			"Temblor de Santa Juliana"	[18]
1854-05-05	Oaxaca	7.vii	VIII
1852-12-04	Acapulco	7.8
1845-04-07	Guerrero	7.9 Grands				"Temblor de Santa Teresa"	[19] [18]
1852-xi-29	Baja California	half-dozen.5 1000La	IX				[20]
1845-03-09	Oaxaca	7.five	VII
1837-11-22	Jalisco	7.7	IX
1835-01-06	State of Mexico		VII?
1820-05-04	Guerrero	vii.half dozen	Vii
1818-05-31	Colima, Michoacán	7.seven	Viii
1806-03-25	Colima, Michoacán	vii.five 1000s					[19]
1800-03-08	Central, Eastern, and Southeastern		7
1787-03-28	Guerrero, Oaxaca, Mexico Metropolis	viii.half dozen 1000w				Severe / tsunami
1776-04-21	United mexican states City, Southern		Viii
Stover & Coffman 1993 uses various seismic scales. MLa is a local magnitude that is equivalent to KL (Richter magnitude scale) and is used for events that occurred prior to the instrumental menses. It is based on the area of perceptibility (every bit presented on isoseismal maps). Thouw = moment magnitude scale and One thousands = surface wave magnitude. The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand up alone articles. The principles described are too applicable to lists. In summary, merely damaging, injurious, or deadly events should exist recorded.

See also [edit]

• Geography of United mexican states

Notes [edit]

1. ^ "K 7.6 - 37 km SE of Aquila, Mexico". nineteen September 2022.
2. ^ National Autonomous University of Mexico (1998), Earthquake Catalog (in Mexican Spanish), National Seismological Service, doi:x.21766/SSNMX/EC/MX
3. ^ "Falla en Ciudad Guzmán deja 102 casas afectadas, 22 de ellas no habitables". NotiespacioPV (in Spanish). 22 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
4. ^ "K 5.7 - Veracruz, Mexico". convulsion.usgs.gov.
5. ^ "Reportan daños en escuela de Coatepec tras sismo". palabrasclaras.mx (in Spanish). ii March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
6. ^ "Suman cuatro muertos en Oaxaca por sismo de ayer sábado - Matutinazo" [There are four deaths in Oaxaca due to an earthquake on Saturday - Matutinazo]. Matutinazo (in Mexican Spanish). September 24, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
7. ^ "Tras el sismo, fallecen dos mujeres por infarto en la CDMX" [After the earthquake, two women died of heart attack in the CDMX]. Excélsior (in Spanish). September 23, 2017. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
8. ^ "Oaxaca: Damnificadas del sismo del 23 de septiembre de 2017 tejen muñecas "con causa" | Fotos" [Oaxaca: Victims of the earthquake of September 23, 2017 weave dolls "with a cause" | Photos]. La Neta Neta! (in Mexican Spanish). September 23, 2019. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
9. ^ "El pequeño terremoto de v,half-dozen que dejó dos muertos en México" [The pocket-size convulsion of five.half-dozen that left two dead in United mexican states]. BBC (in Spanish). November 24, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
10. ^ "Sismo deja una persona muerta en Guerrero" [Earthquake leaves a person dead in Guerrero]. El Universal (in Spanish). April 27, 2009. Archived from the original on May 24, 2012. Retrieved Apr 17, 2022.
11. ^ "Mexico: Earthquake". Deseret News. April 28, 2009. Archived from the original on Oct 16, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
12. ^ "One thousand v.9 - nineteen km WSW of Guayameo, United mexican states". earthquake.usgs.gov.
13. ^ "Puebla, a 18 años del terremoto de 1999" [Puebla, 18 years afterwards the earthquake of 1999]. El Popular (in Spanish). June 15, 2016.
14. ^ USGS. "K 7.2 - Michoacan, United mexican states". Usa Geological Survey.
15. ^ ANSS. "Guerrero 1989 : M 6.ix - Guerrero, Mexico". Comprehensive Catalog. U.Southward. Geological Survey. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
16. ^ Zúñiga, F.R.; Pacheco, J.F.; Guzmán-Speziale, M.; Aguirre-Dı́az, Thou.J.; Espı́ndola, Five.H.; Nava, E. (2003). "The Sanfandila convulsion sequence of 1998, Queretaro, Mexico: activation of an undocumented error in the northern edge of central Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt". Tectonophysics. 361 (three–4): 229–238. Bibcode:2003Tectp.361..229Z. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00606-6.
17. ^ ^{a b} "19th century earthquakes in Mexico: three cases, three comparative studies" by América Molina del Villar
18. ^ ^{a b} Singh, Southward. K.; Astiz, Fifty.; Havskov, J. (1981), "Seismic gaps and recurrence periods of large earthquakes along the Mexican subduction zone: A reexamination", Bulletin of the Seismological Gild of America, Seismological Society of America, 71 (three): 828, Bibcode:1981BuSSA..71..827S, doi:10.1785/BSSA0710030827
19. ^ Stover, C. W.; Coffman, J. L. (1993), Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised), U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Regime Printing Office, pp. 72, 101

References [edit]

• NGDC (1972), Significant Earthquake Database (Data Set), National Geophysical Data Centre, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K

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