Mexico earthquake: 7.5-magnitude tremor hits Oaxaca state

[KY_EnviroGuy]

From: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

1529 UTC is 11:30am EST

PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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* MAGNITUDE 7.4
* ORIGIN TIME 1529 UTC JUN 23 2020
* COORDINATES 15.9 NORTH 95.9 WEST
* DEPTH 33 KM / 20 MILES
* LOCATION NEAR THE COAST OF OAXACA MEXICO

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TSUNAMI OBSERVATIONS
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* THE FOLLOWING ARE TSUNAMI WAVE OBSERVATIONS FROM COASTAL
AND/OR DEEP-OCEAN SEA LEVEL GAUGES AT THE INDICATED
LOCATIONS. THE MAXIMUM TSUNAMI HEIGHT IS MEASURED WITH
RESPECT TO THE NORMAL TIDE LEVEL.

GAUGE TIME OF MAXIMUM WAVE
COORDINATES MEASURE TSUNAMI PERIOD
GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON (UTC) HEIGHT (MIN)
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ACAPULCO MX 16.8N 99.9W 1724 0.68M/ 2.2FT 20
SALINA CRUZ MX 16.2N 95.2W 1745 0.71M/ 2.3FT 20
DART 43413 10.8N 100.1W 1638 0.01M/ 0.0FT 10

* BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA... THE TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS
EARTHQUAKE HAS NOW PASSED.
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Mexico earthquake: 7.5-magnitude tremor hits Oaxaca state
Quake strikes in south of country but is felt more than 400 miles away in Mexico City
Guardian UK
Tom Phillips, David Agren in Mexico City, and Analy Nuño in Guadalajara
Tue 23 Jun 2020 18.46 BST

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/23/mexico-earthquake-75-magnitude-tremor-hits-oaxaca-state

Excerpts:

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake has rattled large swaths of southern and central Mexico, killing at least one person, according to the country’s president.

Mexico’s national seismological service said the quake struck the southern state of Oaxaca at 10.29am local time (1429 BST) on Tuesday but was felt more than 400 miles away in the capital, Mexico City, where buildings shook and panicked residents fled on to the streets.
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The situation near the quake’s epicentre in Crucecita, Oaxaca, was not immediately clear. But in a social media “message to the Mexican people” president Andrés Manuel López Obrador officials said one person had been confirmed dead after a landslide along the country’s Pacific coast. Another person was injured.
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Oaxaca’s state governor, Alejandro Murat, told Milenio Televisión the quake had triggered landslides, cut off road links between some towns and damaged some buildings, including one hospital that had been treating Covid-19 patients. Murat said the sick were being moved elsewhere. But no major buildings in the state capital appeared to have been severely damaged.

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