Mexico - Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake - Guerrero

[sharon sanders]

Magnitude 6.7 - GUERRERO, MEXICO
2011 December 11 01:47:26 UTC

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Earthquake Details

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude
6.7
Date-Time
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 01:47:26 UTC
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 07:47:26 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
18.038?N, 99.796?W
Depth
64.9 km (40.3 miles)
Region
GUERRERO, MEXICO
Distances
42 km (26 miles) SW of Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico
56 km (34 miles) ESE of Arcelia, Guerrero, Mexico
62 km (38 miles) NNW of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico
166 km (103 miles) SSW of MEXICO CITY, D.F., Mexico
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 14.5 km (9.0 miles); depth +/- 9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Parameters
NST=488, Nph=488, Dmin=140.3 km, Rmss=0.78 sec, Gp= 47?,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID
usc000753u

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc000753u.php

 

[Sally Furniss]

Re: Mexico - Magnitude 6.7 Earthquake - Guerrero

Re: Mexico - Magnitude 6.7 Earthquake - Guerrero

A powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, killing at least two people

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/two-confirmed-dead-after-mexico-quake-4626769

 

[Missouriwatcher]

Re: Mexico - Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake - Guerrero

PAGER Yellow Alert: Yellow alerts are issued when our models estimate up to 100 fatalities, or up to 100 million dollars in losses.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/events/us/c000753u/index.html

Revised to 6.5 magnitude
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc000753u.php

 

[Tonka]

Re: Mexico - Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake - Guerrero

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/83447.html
Spanish-English translation

Chilpancingo, the hardest hit by earthquake
According to statistics from the state agency, the date in the country there have been 4 000 5 earthquakes, of which 714 have been recorded in different regions of Guerrero

DAMAGES. The quake caused serious cracks in the north tower of the Cathedral of Chilpancingo, classified as historical monument by the INAH (Photo: Alejandrina GONZ?LEZ NOTIMEX)
CHILPANCINGO. The two deaths and three wounded and damaged buildings, some of them of great historical value, as the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, home of the First Congress of Anahuac in 1813 - and many homes, hospitals and churches with affectations left the earthquake of 6.8 magnitude on the Richter scale rocked the state of Guerrero on Saturday night, according to Civil Defense reports.

According to the report, two men and three women were killed including a girl of three years, were injured by falling rock on the truck they were traveling at kilometer 287 of the Autopista del Sol, near the house of Palo Blanco, coastal area of ​​the state, plus at least 15 people suffered nervous breakdowns in Acapulco.

Authorities said that operated the Seismic Alert System that automatically broadcast warning warning sign, so that 10 of its 12 stations in Guerrero detected in the first instance the earthquake that was felt most strongly in the central region of Guerrero and the port of Acapulco.

In the state capital, the city's director of Civil Protection, C?sar Mayaro Salvador, said he found serious cracks in the north tower of the Cathedral of Chilpancingo, classified as historical monument by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), as well that damage was reported in the Regional Museum of Guerrero.

There were also Building facade collapses in the center and the periphery of the city that damaged several official and private vehicles and public transport, and six houses were reported affected.

In general, municipalities in three regional areas of the state 15 people were treated for nervous crisis, more than 55 homes, hospitals and churches suffered structural damage, 40 people were evacuated four buildings bending and there were many highway landslides, they said.

Most damage occurred in the municipalities of Iguala and Chilpancingo.

In Iguala, three people fainted in two shopping centers and fell five fences in different colonies, and the municipality of Huitzuco be quartered general hospital walls and the church St. James.

They sleep on the street

At dawn on Sunday, about 200 people from the residential area of ​​Infonavit slept on the street for fear that aftershocks collapsed buildings were damaged. Furthermore, reported breaking off in some sections of the Autopista del Sol, mainly between Chilpancingo and Cuernavaca.

Civil Protection reported that in Acapulco were at least seven aftershocks after the earthquake of 6.8 degrees, with epicenter at 45 kilometers northwest of the county seat of Zumpango de Neri. The earthquake caused several cases of hysteria in Acapulco municipalities and hundreds of domestic and foreign tourists came in terror from the hotels to focus on streets and avenues of the port.

714 tremors

So far this year, Guerrero has been the epicenter of 714 earthquakes, which represents 17.78% of the total seismic activity that has been presented in 2011, according to the Secretariat for Civil Protection of the state.

According to statistics from the state agency, the date in the country there have been 4 000 5 earthquakes, of which 714 have been recorded in different regions of Guerrero.

Civil Protection 334 details that have had their epicenter in the region of the Costa Grande, 216 in the Costa Chica, 84 Acapulco, 59 in Tierra Caliente, 14 in the Central zone, four in the North and three in the Mountain, giving a total of 714 earthquakes.