Jessica Ramirez He heard that the windows of his apartment they vibrated and felt that his bed was moving. They were seconds, but he was still scared the early morning of Thursday the 26th in the Pensil neighborhood, Miguel Hidalgo mayor’s office. On the way to the clinic where he works, near the Benito Juárez mayor’s office, he learned that he had been magnitude 2.5. And at midmorning the underground repeated the dose: felt “as if a heavy truck was passing by.”Was another earthquake of magnitude 2.4 one of the hundreds that have occurred in 2024, most imperceptible.
Earthquakes are nothing new
The so-called “microseisms” or low intensity They have their epicenter just a few kilometers deepthey last a flash and affect very limited areas. Scientists technically call them “seismic swarms” that can occur due to “regional tension” or “tectonism” and some of them have been noted in the capital since 1950 and 1956.
Why do “microseisms” occur?
Mexico is in a region of the planet where they coincide five tectonic plates in constant interaction: North America, Coconuts, Peaceful, Rivera and Caribbean. As if that were not enough, in the city there are old, very localized geological faults that startle certain areas of Chilanga.
“The country is crossed by a unstable volcanic stripwith a very intense dynamic,” he says Carlos GutierrezDirector of Research at National Disaster Prevention Center. The faults, it is not ruled out, could hint at volcanic activity. ‘Gulp’!
Mexico, here you are not a champion
It is often thought that, due to the damage and tragedies caused that we have experienced with the earthquakes in several statesour country is one where there are the most catastrophic earthquakes. If those that have a magnitude greater than 7.5which have caused damage worth more than a million dollars, which left more than 10 dead or which generate tsunamisMexico does not appear in the table.
The busiest states in Mexico
The entities located on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where several tectonic plates they actively come together, They usually record the highest number of earthquakes. In Mexico they happen on average more than 15 thousand earthquakes a year and, although most of the events were recorded in the Pacific Ocean, the most lethal effects occurred on September 19, 1985 and of 2017 in the Mexico City. By the way, December (and not September) is when it shakes the most in Mexicoaccording to the National Seismological Service.
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