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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 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 Andreas Fault. / 35.117°N 119.650°W / 35.117; -119.650. The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state of California. [ 1] It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
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 ...
On 19 September 2022, a moment magnitude 7.6-7.7 earthquake struck between the Mexican states of Michoacán and Colima at 13:05:06 local time. [ 1][ 4] The earthquake had a depth of 26.9 km (16.7 mi), [ 1] resulting in a maximum intensity of VIII ( Severe) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. The USGS reported the epicentre was 35 km (22 ...
The first in the string of earthquakes rattled Sunday just before 10:30 a.m., centered about 20 miles southeast of Mexicali near Delta, Mexico. That magnitude 3.3 earthquake was followed by three ...
Retrieved 24 Jan 2021. ^ a b Craig M. dePolo and Terri M. Garside (2006). The November 21, 1910 Tonopah Junction Earthquake, and the February 18, 1914 and April 24, 1914 Reno Earthquakes in Nevada (PDF). ^ "M 6.0 - Nevada". USGS-ANSS. Retrieved 24 Jan 2021.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake was reported Sunday at 6:31 a.m. Pacific time two miles from Corral Falso, Mexico, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.