1999 Tehuacán earthquake
Date | 15 June 1999 |
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Magnitude | Mw 7.0 |
Depth | 70 km |
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Landslides | Yes [1] |
Casualties | 14 [1] |
The 1999 Tehuacán earthquake, or the 1999 Central Mexico earthquake, occurred on June 15 at 15:42 local time (20:42 UTC) near Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, close to the state of Oaxaca. The earthquake measured 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale.
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Damage
Fourteen people were reported dead, and many historic buildings and monuments were damaged. 5,306 houses were destroyed, 15,688 partially damaged, and 9,682 slightly damaged.[2] Many houses collapsed in the state of Puebla, including parts of the Puebla City Hall.[1][3] The state of Puebla was declared a disaster area.[4]
Geology
The Cocos Plate is subducting beneath the North American Plate in the Middle America Trench. This earthquake was an inslab earthquake,[5] and the epicenter had some distance from the Middle American Trench. This temblor was the tenth earthquake since 1864 with magnitude larger than 6.5 and similar location of epicenter.[6]
References
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External links
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- ↑ http://www.eclac.org/mexico/publicaciones/sinsigla/xml/5/8385/doc6.pdf
- ↑ http://www.igeograf.unam.mx/instituto/publicaciones/boletin/bol43/b43art2.pdf[dead link]
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- ↑ http://www.ucm.es/info/Geofis/g-atinsis/Garciaetal2005.pdf
- ↑ http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/es/DocumentosPublicos/PDF/Cap2Sismologia.pdf