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A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck at 5:17 a.m. Monday near an active swarm of smaller quakes that began Saturday. A separate swarm of quakes occurred a week ago.
Mexico was shaken Monday by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake on its Pacific coast that killed at least one person. The quake struck around 1:05 p.m. local time in southwest Mexico about 23 miles from ...
SAN FRANCISCO ‒ A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the town of Petrolia on Thursday at 10:44 a.m. local time, generating a now discontinued tsunami warning that stretched from southern ...
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the shore of Northern California Thursday morning. Tsunami warnings have been lifted across northern California and southern Oregon.. Aftershocks are ongoing ...
A strong earthquake shook the border of Mexico and Guatemala early Sunday, driving frightened residents into the streets. The temblor struck just before 6 a.m. near the Mexican border town of ...
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 7.3-magnitude earthquake hits Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila, leaving at least 19 people dead. President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol is impeached (signing pictured) following his declaration of martial law. Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards. Gukesh Dommaraju defeats Ding Liren to win the World Chess Championship.
The government of Mexico City sponsored the placement of accelerometers throughout the city in 1987, allowing data to be obtained on ground movements in the area. With the support of the local government, CIRES developed Mexico City's earthquake alert system, which began operating with 12 sensors in 1991 and has been publicly available since 1993.