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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 magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck El Paraíso, Mexico on April 13 at a depth of 34.0 km (21.1 mi), Two houses were damaged in Atoyac, and power outages occurred in Mexico City. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Macquarie Island on April 16, at a depth of 10.0 km (6.2 mi).
The earthquake coincidentally occurred on the 37th anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which killed around 10,000 people, and the fifth anniversary of the 2017 Puebla earthquake that struck the state of Puebla and killed 370 people. A national earthquake drill was being held shortly after midday, less than an hour before the ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck at 5:17 a.m. Monday near an active swarm of smaller quakes that began Saturday. ... South of the California-Mexico border, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck on ...
Throughout the year, earthquakes killed 607 people, making 2024 the least deadliest year for earthquakes since 2020. The vast majority of the year's fatalities were attributed to a M w 7.5 earthquake that struck the west coast of Honshu in Japan immediately after 2024 began, which was also the strongest event of the year and the deadliest in ...
A nearly 7.0 earthquake rocked southern Japan on Monday with no reports of damage to the two nuclear power plants in the area. Magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits southern Japan, tsunami advisory issued ...
The 2014 Mexico–Guatemala earthquake struck 4 km (2.5 mi) west of Puerto Madero, on July 7 at 05:23:54, at a depth of 53 km (33 mi). The shock had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very Strong). [1]
Since 1950, there have been 21 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above in what is know as the Lhasa block, the largest of which was the 6.9-magnitude quake in Mainling in 2017, according to CCTV.