7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Southern Mexico

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7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Southern Mexico





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Although the magnitude has been bouncing around (7.6 – 7.9) and may yet be adjusted again by the USGS, what was obviously strong seismic event has struck southern Mexico near the town of Ometepec (pop. 55,000), in the state of Guerrero.

This is about 115 miles from Acapulco. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries.





While local tsunami or tidal changes may be reported, as of now there are no Pacific wide Tsunami warnings issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.



Posted by Michael Coston at 2:35 PM

 

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Earthquake hits Mexico, Indonesia

MEXICO CITY (CNN) -- A 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit Mexico Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The earthquake's epicenter was about 15 miles east of Ometepec, Guerrero, the agency said. Its depth was about 11 miles the USGS said.

The agency earlier reported the magnitude of the quake at 7.9, but later revised that figure.

Residents rushed into the streets after feeling the temblor in Mexico City. Tourists and residents also felt the earthquake in the resort city of Acapulco.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in a Twitter post that there were no immediate reports of serious damage.

In Mexico City, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard sent tweets saying that there was no visible damage in the capital and that the sprawling city's strategic services and water system were functioning. Regardless, he tweeted, numerous buildings were being evacuated.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Papua, Indonesia, on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was 41 miles deep, the USGS said. Its epicenter was 96 miles south-southwest of Jayapura.

http://www.kpax.com/news/7-6-earthquake-hits-mexico/

 

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Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/world/americas/mexico-earthquake/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Hundreds of houses collapse after 7.4 earthquake hits Mexico
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 6:05 PM EDT, Tue March 20, 2012

Mexico City (CNN) -- Hundreds of houses collapsed after a strong earthquake that rattled residents in southern Mexican resort towns and the nation's capital Tuesday, officials said.

The quake had a magnitude of 7.4, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Its epicenter was about 15 miles (25 kilometers) east of Ometepec, Guerrero, the USGS said, and its depth was about 12.4 miles (20 km).

In the nearby town of Igualapa, officials reported that at least 800 houses had collapsed, the Guerrero state government said in a statement. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries or deaths.

More than an hour after the quake, residents in Ometepec were feeling aftershocks, said Francisca Villalva Davila, the city's comptroller.

"There are many cracked ceilings, many houses that collapsed," she told CNN en Espa?ol.

About five out of every 10 houses in the municipality, where about 50,000 people live, saw significant damage, the comptroller said...

 

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http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=647126
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3 of IMSS Gynecology cracked; relocate 70 patients
Editorial | National
21.03.2012 | Creation Time: 1:52:02 | Last Modified: 1:53:00




The director of the IMSS, Daniel Karam, said the quake registered 7.8 degrees at noon, he left severe damages to clinics or hospitals of the institution, Pediatrics Gynecology only No. 3, located at Avenida Politecnico in Mexico City severe cracks recorded, so that 70 patients will be transferred to other hospitals of the institution. Specified in an interview with Joaquin Lopez Doriga the hospital Gynecology Pediatrics No. 3 is the only damage that has more bulky, with large cracks, broken glass and with an apparent damage to the stairs. As a result of this first review made ​​by the Civil Protection personnel it was decided to evacuate about 70 patients are hospitalized. He explained the head of the institution, "this evacuation is done preemptively, that is, we know that some other replicas can register as has happened, and until you have an opinion, whether or not structural damage, we prefer to take these preventive measures and relocate patients to other hospitals of the IMSS in which are already spaces and accommodate accordingly. " reiterated that according to the report done, clinics and hospitals are functioning normally, only the Hospital of Gynecology and Pediatrics, National Polytechnic Avenue. For his part, Secretary of Health, Solomon Chertorivski, announced that the NHS as a whole works normally, but was determined to move patients from three medical units to other hospitals as a precaution against possible structural damage caused by the earthquake of 7.8 degrees.

 

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http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/837105.html

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http://eleconomista.com.mx/sociedad/2012/03/21/se-registran-mas-40-replicas-sismo-mexico
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There are more than 40 aftershocks of an earthquake in Mexico
March 21, 2012 - 07:49Credit:
AFP

Photo: AFP
The Mexican capital has been rocked by at least 40 aftershocks that struck on Tuesday much of central and southern Mexico and left 11 injured and dozens of affected housing, said Wednesday the National Seismological Service.

Around 05H36 (11H36 GMT) on Wednesday was a replica of 4.9 degrees, which was felt in the taller buildings in the metropolitan area, where more than 20 million people. On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday there were two dozen earthquakes, the strongest of them 5 degrees.

The Civil Protection Service said the Mexican capital were not received reports of emergencies by new earthquakes.

"The urban infrastructure of the city has endured well," he told radio La W Elias Moreno Brizuela, Head of Civil Protection, adding that throughout the day will continue the review by experts of nearly one hundred reported buildings with various damages.

"So far there is no structural damage," he added.

The earthquake that shook Mexico at noon on Tuesday and was centered in Ometepec, a region bordering the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca (south), is the strongest he has lived the country since the 1985 earthquake that devastated Mexico City.

The quake reached 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale according to the seismological service of the U.S. and 7.8 on the Richter scale according to Mexican authorities.

 

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Around 300 000 people are without water service by its impact on two aqueducts south of Mexico City following the earthquake of 7.8 Richter scale recorded at noon yesterday, said the head of city government. Marcelo Ebrard .

In an interview with First News , Televisa, the official said that the supply of the liquid is conducted through pipes, as it provides for the repair of the aqueducts in Iztapalapa and Xochimilco about 48 hours later.

He noted that the Zaragoza bridge suffered structural damage will take about two to three weeks to repair, because it has to change because of the damages.

He mentioned that the quake was reported only two wounded, one of them, the driver of a minibus which was crushed by the wreckage of a bridge is still in intensive care.

Ebrard said that with the best infrastructure of the City, following the 1985 earthquake, and the advancement of the culture of prevention, there was no serious damage.

 

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In three villages near the epicenter classes were suspended indefinitely."It hasn't stopped shaking here and the truth is that we had to suspend classes because people are really afraid of what can happen to their children," said Guerrero state Education Secretary Silvia Romero told the daily Milenio newspaper.


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90 aftershocks, largest was 7.4 degrees: SSN
Notimex | National
22.03.2012 | Creation Time: 15:53:11 | Last Modified: 18:01:11


The National Seismological Service (SSN) reported that after the earthquake of 7.4 degrees on Richter scale was recorded on Tuesday, 90 aftershocks have been reported.

In an interview, Carlos Valdes, chief of that service, under the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM, said that the magnitudes of these aftershocks ranging from 3.8 to 5.3 °.

"This is normal, it is a process within expectations. By analogy would be like saying that there is a healing process (after the quake on Tuesday).

"There was a fracture below the Earth and presents a rearrangement that is causing these movements, which will end until everything fits. And from there it enters a process of energy storage for another 40 years (which could arise similar event at the very epicenter). "

He noted that even when citizens do not like the presence of these phenomena is better than the energy stored below the earth's surface is released by earthquakes of moderate intensity to build up and is ejected abruptly with an earthquake of great magnitude.

For Valdes one of the best means of preventing these events is to know more and more, stay calm and continue with the practice of drills, so that people learn what to do if an earthquake is presented.

Also according to the twitter account of the National Seismological Service, so far this Thursday there have been 16 aftershocks ranging from 3.8 to 5.4 on the Richter scale.

 

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http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/720987.sismo-fue-de-74-grados-richter-ajusta-el-ssn.html
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Earthquake was 7.4 on the Richter scale, adjust the SSN
THE UNIVERSAL / MEXICO CITY.

Damage. Residents of the community Cochoapa in Guerrero, near the epicenter of the earthquake of 7.4 degrees recorded on Tuesday, observe their houses destroyed by the quake.


Specialists from the National Seismological Service (SSN) adjusted to 7.4 magnitude on the Richter scale earthquake on Tuesday struck central and southeast and which had the epicenter Ometepec, Guerrero.
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90 aftershocks had the earthquake of 7.4 degrees: SSN Yesterday, 5:37 pm


This was announced by the head of Civil Protection Department of the Interior, Laura Gurza, who said that so far there have been 56 aftershocks of this earthquake until 16:15 hours on Wednesday in magnitudes of 4 to 5.3 degrees.
She explained that the geology of the SSN specialists made a downward adjustment to the magnitude of the earthquake and rated at 7.4 degrees, after an analysis of the magnitude, rather than 7.8 as degrees was reported at first .
"Earthquakes have a variability in terms of the acceleration provided in each of the areas depending on the condition of soil. This generates readings differentiated between the different stations which record an automatic read and then making adjustments are based on the behavior the soil itself ... therefore always given to preliminary data confirming an exact amount, "he said.
In a telephone interview from the town of Ometepec, the official of the Interior after a trip could be noted that no structural damage to the Regional Hospital and a clinical ISSSTE, only cosmetic damage, so that patients can return safely to occupy infrastructure.
"We did a tour of the center of this municipality. We found no major damage, only displacements in the roof tiles and cracks in buildings, we are talking about 250 homes enumerated, but we hope it twice."
Gurza said the governor of Guerrero, Angel Aguirre, and requested the emergency declaration for Ometepec, it is being dictated by the National Center for Disaster Prevention.
He noted that to date remains at 11 the number of persons injured by the earthquake. In the case of Guerrero, he said, no one was injured in Oaxaca there were nine people, two of them a policeman and a woman are frail, who were taken to a hospital in Acapulco, Guerrero.
Guerrero: 30 000 homes affected by earthquake
The damage after the earthquake on Tuesday rose Guerrero counted 30 000 homes affected in 28 municipalities, 800 with total losses, according to state governor Angel Aguirre Rivero. Until Wednesday afternoon 56 aftershocks were recorded between 4 and 5.3 ?. Ometepec Township, where was the epicenter, and Tlacoachistlahuaca, Xochistlahuaca Cuajinicuilapa, Igualapa, and San Luis Acatlan Azoy? were the most damage occurred in Guerrero.
The president said the implementation of Plan DN-III by the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) in the region of the Costa Chica, and confirmed that some 200 families are in shelters temporarily by damage to their homes or because afraid to return to their homes. The team conducted surveys Guerrero DIF among the affected population. Military and the Navy began a census of households affected by the quake and collected data from homeowners as well as food to give them immediate help.

 

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http://www.nssoaxaca.com/nacional/1-general/2679-resienten-74-escuelas-efectos-de-temblor
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74 schools suffer effects of tremor
National / General Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:06 pm , by Source


The student community of Oaxaca and Guerrero has been affected by the earthquake on Tuesday.
Photo: Reuters
Source: REFORM
Virgilio Guerrero and Jesus Sanchez
Chilpancingo, Guerrero. The education sector was one of the most affected by the earthquake on Tuesday. Guerrero and Oaxaca reported damage to at least 74 basic education schools.
The governor Angel Aguirre Rivero reported yesterday damaged 20 schools: 18 of the Costa Chica, one of Iguala and Chilpancingo another.
The state delegate of the Ministry of Education, C?sar Quevedo, reported that classes were suspended in 150 campuses Azoy?, Ometepec Cuajinicuilapa, Tlacoachistlahuaca and Xochistlahuaca, attended by more than 3 000 young people.
"The principals on a tour of the buildings, and saw that it was unwise to risk boys, and were allowed to suspend classes," he declared.
Now, he said, state and federal authorities conduct a damage assessment and later take a series of determinations.
The State Institute of Education of Oaxaca (IEEPO) reported that at least 54 schools have affectations.
However, indicated that only 25 classes were suspended to protect the physical safety of students and teachers.
Reliance said that in Pinotepa Nacional reported 15 schools damaged.
Meanwhile, in the municipality of Putla de Guerrero, the primary "Benito Juarez" fell off a wall of mud that affects the audience, while the primary "Emiliano Zapata" is a wall collapsed.
In telesecundaria the municipality of San Martin Itunyoso the perimeter wall collapsed, while in the city of Oaxaca reported primary affectations "German President", "20 November" and pre "20 November".
Also were damaged Kindergarten "Juan Ruiz Alarc?n" and the campus "Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi" with damage to a fence.

Schools that had cracks in classrooms are the Normal Education, the primary "Cuauht?moc", "Jesus Gonzalez Ortega," and kindergarten "Angela Peralta".

 

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http://www.informador.com.mx/primer...o-pide-declarar-desastre-en-31-municipios.htm
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Guerrero asked to declare disaster in 31 municipalities

National Earthquake | States | Warrior

Thousands of homes were damaged in Guerrero. Its people ask for help from the authorities. REUTERS

Two people die as a result of the earthquake in Guerrero
Earthquakes may be caused by a volcano in birth
Suman 30 000 homes affected in Guerrero
The Navy helps to stocks damaged after the earthquake in Guerrero
Demand access to Fonden to rebuild or repair 30 000 homes
The federal government provides temporary employment for people with two minimum wages per family

Ometepec GUERRERO (22/MAR/2012). - The governor Angel Aguirre Rivero announced that in the disaster declaration was drawn up initially of 28 municipalities, three locations were incorporated more affected by the earthquake of 7.4 degrees Richter on Tuesday in the regions of the Costa Chica and Monta?a low. asked the federal government to declare a disaster area where 31 municipalities have severe damage, mainly housing and support is required by Fonden resources (Disaster Fund Natural). He said that so far has a record of 30 000 houses damaged, of which 800 are considered total losses. requested support for the federal government in the first stage of 10 000 houses, 20 000 100 packages of home remodeling Five thousand kitchens, four thousand baths mobility and more. quickly, reported that among the 31 municipalities affected are Ometepec Cuajinicuilpa, where there were two deaths; Igualapa, Azoy?, Tecoanapa, Xochistlahuaca Tlachoachistlahuaca, San Luis Acatl?n , Chilpancingo and others. The governor was on a tour of the towns in the Costa Chica region as Iguala, Ometepec, where they observed that communities of Huajintepec several houses destroyed in the walls and ceilings by the quake. In Igualapa Aguirre Rivero said the residents would support them with rehabilitation of their homes and the local church which resulted in serious damage. In turn, the federal Social Development Secretary, Heriberto F?lix Guerra, did not require the investment of the resources used to support those who lost their homes, but said to be served to all. He said the affected areas will be reconstructed both in the municipalities of Guerrero and Oaxaca. He emphasized that to rebuild the destroyed houses and other that were partially damaged will also be supported by the people through temporary employment which seek to pay twice the minimum wage per family.

 

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Earthquake in Guerrero left 2 dead


Oaxaca suffered serious damage to homes. Cuartoscuro
One person died when a falling wall crushed him by the quake, while the other died of a heart attack.

AP



Two people died as a result of the 7.4 quake that shook the country on Tuesday March 21, said Thursday the mayor of a municipality of Guerrero.

Salvador Cruz Castro, mayor of Cuajinicuilapa, in Guerrero state, reported that one of the victims died when a falling wall crushed him by the earthquake , while the other died of complications from a heart attack.

9 other people were reported injured in Oaxaca , according to the federal government.

The quake was one of the strongest since the earthquake of 8.1 degrees to 1985 that killed 10,000 people in the country.

After Tuesday's earthquake, Mexico has felt aftershocks of different magnitudes, including one of 5.2 occurred Thursday.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, for its acronym in English) said the new quake's epicenter was located at the boundary between the southern states of Guerrero and Oaxaca, the same area where they located the focus of Tuesday's earthquake.

USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said that aftershocks may occur weeks, months or even years after a strong earthquake, such as Tuesday.

The mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, wrote on his Twitter account that no major damage was reported by replication.

Some people evacuated their offices briefly in downtown Mexico City by the quake Thursday.

 

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http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/69508a81215c1944961855c57437ed3d
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Guerrero investigated in relation with earthquakes volcano
STATES ? MARCH 22, 2012 - 3:26 PM - JAVIER TRUJILLO
Angel Aguirre state governor said that so far has not confirmed that the volcano of Ometepe is the cause of the recent earthquakes.


Structural damaged 78 schools in quake-Iztapalapa
Oaxaca earthquake damage reach 90 million pesos
Reported the first two deaths from Tuesday's earthquake
Guerrero Guerrero ? The governor Angel Aguirre Rivero admitted that in this town on the Costa Chica region in Ometepec Amuzgo community of Huixtepec, a small volcano has been active for many years and could be the source of the earthquake of 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale and its 80 aftershocks.

In an interview the president acknowledged the existence of Guerrero called Huixtepec hill, but said that "So far we have no official information that allows us to establish that the origin of the earthquakes that have shaken the area of ​​the state of Guerrero," he said.

- UNAM geologists have said something about the activity of volcano is Huixtepec?

-No, no, I have said anything. This alerts us to study the situation more seismic in the region, there many years ago we appealed to Huixtepec hill, where there is a small volcano is active and we have records and we want to know more, he said.

Aguirre Rivero said that it is in communities and Huixtepec Huajintepec Amuzga of where earthquakes generated the greatest damage to structures of more than 500 homes destroyed in their entirety as they are constructed of primary materials, he said.

Regarding the houses affected by the earthquake last March 20, announced that a census will provide the holder of the Social Development Secretariat (SEDESO) Heriberto Felix Guerra.

And he explained that "It is not a river fishing in troubled, we are seeing that many modest adobe houses, old houses and of course that in an earthquake, more aftershocks that continue to occur have been low in many of them only Hiajintepec, 500 houses destroyed. "

The governor said he hopes to implement the housing program and temporary employment in the region costachiquense which has a huge backlog of housing for the residents of this area.

The UNAM and researchers monitoring the Amuzgo area

Furthermore it was confirmed that the researcher and professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Dutch Allen Husker, as well as specialists in seismology and geophysics of the highest seat of learning in the country, are in the communities to install censors Amuzga .

It indicates that the geologists of the UNAM will install 102 sensors and seismic alarms Huixtepec communities, Huajintepec, San Nicol?s Tolentino in the municipalities of Ometepec and Cuajinicuilapa constantly to monitor the behavior of earthquakes in the region.

 

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http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/85090.html
Spanish-English translation

1,053 earthquake affected schools
Intensify technical supervision in the schools

EVALUATION. The governor of Oaxaca, Gabino Cue, yesterday toured a number of municipalities affected by the quake of 7.4 on the Richter scale. (Photo: SPECIAL)

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A total of 1,053 educational institutions of Oaxaca and Guerrero were damaged, including some of them should be demolished as a result of the earthquake of 7.4 on the Richter scale was recorded a week ago and whose epicenter was located on Ometepe, in the Costa Chica of Guerrero.

In the first entity, 753 schools were affected in the Southern Highlands and Mixteca region, of which 112 schools have temporarily suspended work. About 14 have severe damage so apply resources from the National Natural Disasters (Fonden) for reconstruction, the governor said Gabino Cue.

Meanwhile, in Guerrero, 30 schools need to be demolished and rebuilt a total of 300 that were affected in the municipalities of the Costa Chica, said the state governor, Angel Aguirre Rivero. The president urged the federal government to expedite the release of resources to help Fonden in the reconstruction of 15 000 dwellings, a total of 30 000 that were damaged in 29 municipalities.

In Oaxaca, following an evaluation meeting with 25 mayors, in Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, the director of State Institute of Education, Bernardo Vasquez, said that the number of schools with damage amounting to 753, according to a census the Coast region.

He explained that the institute's technical brigades intensified monitoring, "in order to meet the physical state of the schools, and thereby provide security to students, school administrators and teachers."

On March 24 were sent to the disaster area 10 brigades of technicians to serve the municipality of San Juan Cacahuatepec, where there were 35 visits.

In this parish was affected Normal School, but students resumed classes in safe areas and were disabled only dance halls and the audiovisual.

Because of lower intensity earthquakes that continue, nervousness remain among the population and this affects whether parents choose not to send their children to school, so it will intensify the checks to the schools in good condition can be used, he said.

The National Seismological Service reported that as of March 26, the number of aftershocks above 3.5 on the Richter scale was 201. Yesterday there were at least five movements in the border region between Oaxaca and Guerrero, ranging from 3.7 to 4.1 ?. Even at noon there was a 5.6 to 145 kilometers southeast of Las Margaritas, Chiapas.

Yesterday, Gabino Cue made a working trip in municipalities affected by the earthquake, as the Martyrs of Tacubaya, Santiago Llano Grande, Santa Maria Country Houses, San Jose Estancia Grande, Santo Domingo Armenta and National Pinotepa to know the status of the victims and coordinate relief work.

He said that the resources of Temporary Employment Program, authorized by the federal Social Development Secretariat, will start delivering from March 30, retroactive to March 21. "We will support each family with a thousand 180 pesos." In two weeks will operate the housing program designed by the federal and state levels to stay ahead of the rainy season, said.

Missing money

While acknowledging the federal government's willingness to help the affected municipalities, Angel Aguirre said that eight days of the quake, the state has not received any economic resource of the Federation to help the victims.

He said that on Wednesday will meet with Secretary of the Interior, Alejandro Poire Romero, who will ask for a fast and agile mechanism for releasing resources.

 

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http://www.aztecanoticias.com.mx/no...an-286-replicas-tras-el-sismo-del-20-de-marzo
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Fuente
Notimex
02 de abril de 2012
20:20 hrs

286 aftershocks after the earthquake of March 20

Mexico City. - The National Seismological Service has reported so far 286 aftershocks, with magnitudes ranging from 3.9 to 6.0 degrees on Richter scale, after the earthquake of 7.4 on the Richter scale on 20 March.

In his account of Twitter , the National Seismological Service said the quake of the day at 12:36 hours had an intensity of 6.0 degrees on Richter scale, which so far is the replica stronger and significant after 20 in March.

The epicenter of this movement was located 45 kilometers west of Pinotepa Nacional , on the coast of Oaxaca .

According to the seismological , so far this Monday there have been 16 aftershocks, the latest at 18:54 hours with magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale and epicenter 105 kilometers southwest of Pinotepa Nacional , Oacaxa.

 

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http://www.oem.com.mx/elheraldodechihuahua/notas/n2490644.htmSpanish-English translation

Mexico
In 1932 we recorded a quake of 8.2 Richter scale: Carlos Valdes Gonzalez

Carlos Valdes Gonzalez.
Organizaci?n Editorial Mexicana
April 2, 2012


Frederick LaMont / El Sol de Mexico in Mexico City. - "Most of the earthquakes that have shaken this city have their origin on the coast of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Michoacan, as was the case of September 19, 1985, which was not the most serious of those recorded in the history of our country, said the head of the National Seismological Service Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM, Carlos Valdes Gonzalez. In an interview with Organizaci?n Editorial Mexicana (OEM), acknowledged that better than the stored energy below the land surface is released with earthquakes of moderate intensity that they accrue to later be expelled suddenly. Finally, he recalled that "the most severe earthquake in American history occurred in 1932 off the coast of Colima and Jalisco, with a magnitude of 8.2 on the Richter scale. " w Prevention really are efficient seismic alarms in the country? 'If properly installed in their core regions, it can function properly seismic warning system even if it means we must rely on the distance from the epicenter. In the case of DF is known that earthquakes we feel comes from the coast of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Michoacan, through the operation of alarms. Where did the 1985 earthquake? -Its epicenter was in the coast of Michoac?n, a distance of 400 kilometers. Now with the advance warning systems this information can be transmitted in about 50 seconds or up to a minute and if the quake registered to other features in less time. Do you think what the new systems provide the time necessary to prevent the population? -At present, the technology facilitates having a precise warning system, although in reality it is a short notice, that of not having to prepare drills at home, theaters, stadiums and crowded places, would become critical. w Logistics Do you think that what the drills are conducted regularly in offices, schools and attendance areas are most appropriate? -Although for some to have a notice of 50 seconds can seem like a good time, not having the right experience will lose time in deciding whether or not the alarm was fire drill or an actual earthquake. What should be done before the registration of an earthquake? 'As citizens we have responsibility for plans that really work to prevent and therefore we must know how to act and may occasionally fail due to prior learning which is important to ensure an adequate tool for frequent earthquakes in the country. What are the earthquakes of greater risk ? -Those that exceed magnitude 7 on the nearby coast and out of Guerrero, which is important to remember that Mexico is a seismically active. w Upward What are the statistics on earthquakes? 'Only in 2011 recorded 4,160 earthquakes throughout the Republic, leaving an average 10 to 12 movements per day, but mostly small. What were the largest scale? -The area of Chuapas in Veracruz, also felt in Mexico City, so the first action we must take is to accept the seismicity as a common phenomenon in our country. really all earthquakes may manifest apocalyptic consequences? -They would have to be destructive to have designed structures that have the capacity to resist. Given these phenomena there is no other way but to act as a safety study and evaluate the content within our places of residence and work. w Collateral Damage What other recommendations should be adopted so that earthquakes do not affect heavily on our homes and work area? 'We must change how we store the gas, because in 1985 it was common to have cylinders 40 to 80 liters in our houses, most now employ stationary tanks to roll over in an earthquake will release more gas and hundreds of electrical devices now available can cause a short circuit and even an explosion. How many aftershocks were recorded on Tuesday 13 to Wednesday 28? -A total of 229 were located, measured and classified. also have data from hundreds of small mirrors that are evaluated for further quantification and processing. How to explain the new culture of earthquakes? -The surface of the earth is a spherical puzzle, like a soccer ball where pentagons and hexagons move. In it there are 7 of huge pieces called tectonic plates that move relative to each other with slow, which accumulate energy at the edges and when the level exceeds the limits of rock strength produces earthquakes . w plates What tectonic plate is the most impact on earthquakes? -The largest is the Pacific plate and around its edge there are constantly earthquakes and volcanoes, it is called the "Pacific Ring of Fire" stretching from New Zealand, Japan, Russia, Alaska Peninsula, part of Canada, northern United States and Baja California, Colima, Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico, the Andes Mountains in South America , Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. What is the impact the Pacific Ring of Fire in the event of earthquakes? -exist both seismic and volcanic affectations that make up a fraternity, besides incurring the largest earthquakes recorded in the last 100 years, as was the case of Alaska, Chile, Japan and Mexico in 1985. What was the most destructive earthquake in the history of Mexico? -one is reminded of 8.2 degrees on Richter scale, off the coast of Colima and Jalisco, while the DF (1985) was 8.1. Both were related to the movement of the Pacific plate and one that stands between it and the territory, which is the Cocos Plate, causing both of our earthquakes. cyclical movements w ? He believes that the earthquake last Tuesday 13 respond to a cyclic reaction of tectonic plates? -The quake registered Ometepec itself is cyclical, because in that area, but in the year 1968, presented a twin event, so named because it presented two earthquakes with magnitudes close to 7 in a relatively short period, to what is known as the "double seismic Ometepec." Times of recurrence in this area are short and less than 40 years. How long will register an earthquake of similar magnitude or greater than 1985? -Although an estimated 150 years of this magnitude took another 26 years, there are only 124 and when that happens it is best to think about drills, preparation and structures in coordination with agencies Civil Protection and the media. DISCOVER YOUR NEW SITE!: www.federicolamont.tv

 

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EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO | March 21, 2012
U.S. lagging behind Mexico in earthquake warning capability


Gary London
LA City Buzz Examiner
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Mexico has drug cartel violence, poverty, and a political system seemingly unable to adequately cope with these problems.

It also has an earthquake warning system in place to warn its citizens of a major earthquake in progress.

The U.S. does not....more from the source.

 

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Mexico City Earthquake Early Warning?it works!

Leave a Comment Posted by Austin Elliott on March 31, 2012

Want to see what happens when you can know an earthquake is coming? Mexico has footage that?s got you covered....

The first video clearly shows evacuation before the shaking begins...