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The 1985 Mexico City earthquake struck in the early morning of 19 September at 07:17:50 (CST) with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a maximal Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico City area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people. The sequence of events included a foreshock of magnitude 5.2 that ...
Mexico lies within two seismically active earthquake zones. The Baja California peninsula lies near the boundary of the Pacific plate and the North American plate, while southern Mexico lies just north of the boundary between the North American plate and the Cocos and Rivera tectonic plates. The Cocos plate is subducting under the North ...
A large percentage of the buildings which were damaged in Mexico City were between 8 and 18 stories high, indicating possible resonance effects with dominant two-second period horizontal ground accelerations which were recorded in the area. September 20 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurs near the coast of Guerrero, Mexico. Caused additional ...
T he U.S. Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami was possible only along parts of the Mexican coastline within about 200 miles of the quake epicenter.
Powerful earthquake strikes Mexico on anniversary of 2017, 1985 tremors
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck western Mexico on Sept. 19, shaking buildings hundreds of miles away in Mexico City and triggering earthquake alarms, which sent people spilling out into the streets.
Anniversaries of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 2017 Chiapas earthquake and the 2017 Puebla earthquake: 2 October: Commemoration of the Tlatelolco massacre (1968). 7 October: Commemoration of the sacrifice of Senator Belisario Domínguez (1913). 22 December: Death of José María Morelos (1815).
Statutory holidays (referred as "feriados" or "días de asueto" in Mexico) are legislated through the federal government and ruled by the Federal Labor Law (Ley Federal del Trabajo). [1] Most workers, public and private, are entitled to take the day off with regular pay.