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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 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Michoacan, west Mexico, in the early hours of Thursday, September 22, the United States Geological Survey said, with tremors felt as far away as Mexico City ...
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 ...
Mexico City - Collapsed upper stories and construction equipment at work at the Ministry of Telecommunications and Transportation building. At the time of the earthquake, Mexico was in its fourth year of a foreign debt crisis, and a contracting economy causing serious political problems for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Much of ...
Just three days after an earthquake shook western and central Mexico, another powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck Mexico early Thursday, causing buildings to topple and ...
A hotel ceiling fan in western Mexico swayed heavily as a 7.4 magnitude earthquake shook the region on Monday, September 19.Video posted to Twitter by @itspapajon shows a fan swinging in his 12th ...
The 1911 Michoacán earthquake occurred on June 7 at 04:26 local time (11:02 UTC). [3] [4] The epicenter was located near the coast of Michoacán, Mexico. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.6 on the moment magnitude scale. [5] 45 people were reported dead. [6] In Mexico City, 119 houses were destroyed. [7]
The pool in Devils Hole, home to the endangered pupfish, saw waves erupt up to 4 feet high after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit near Mexico on Monday.