Earthquake!!!
Yesterday's 7.7 earthquake on the coast of Michoacan between Tecpan and Lazaro Cardenas was really felt here in Zihuatanejo. Fortunately there was no damage here and reports make it appear as though ...
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Mexico has tectonic plates near and under, most of Mexico sits on the North American plate with the Baja peninsula riding along on the Pacific plate, on the South East is the Caribean plate that is pushing on a South West direction, directly South is the Cocos plate and North of it is the Rivera plate.
The Cocos and Rivera plates are subduction plates that are going under the North American plate, the Cocos plate is broken in two sections and is very interesting because it does not continue in an ark down but levels of and it travels for a distance, and then goes under that is from the coast of Acapulco to Mexico City, that is why the volcano Popocatepetl is active.
So Mexico has subduction earthquakes and shear earthquakes, Baja rides the Pacific plate along with California against the North American plate, ergo the San Andreas fault.
Mexico has very active teluric zones and there are a miriad of frature zones, there will be more quakes to come, lets hope that the population learns to build better structures that are more stable in teluric movements
The Monday quake was from the Rivera plate moving and there there is a gap along the North Cocos plate on the coast of Guerrero that has not moved in some time the last time it had a good movement was 1957 so we are looking at a big one.
navegator
The Cocos and Rivera plates are subduction plates that are going under the North American plate, the Cocos plate is broken in two sections and is very interesting because it does not continue in an ark down but levels of and it travels for a distance, and then goes under that is from the coast of Acapulco to Mexico City, that is why the volcano Popocatepetl is active.
So Mexico has subduction earthquakes and shear earthquakes, Baja rides the Pacific plate along with California against the North American plate, ergo the San Andreas fault.
Mexico has very active teluric zones and there are a miriad of frature zones, there will be more quakes to come, lets hope that the population learns to build better structures that are more stable in teluric movements
The Monday quake was from the Rivera plate moving and there there is a gap along the North Cocos plate on the coast of Guerrero that has not moved in some time the last time it had a good movement was 1957 so we are looking at a big one.
navegator
