1942 Guatemala earthquake

Earthquake off southern coast of Guatemala 1942 Guatemala earthquake 1942-08-06 23:37:02 900408 iscgem900408 August 6, 1942 17:37 Central America w y 7.7 s y 7.9Dmowska Lovison 1988 657 35 km on 13.78 -90.91 region:MX_type:event inline,title Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador 38 killed The 1942 Guatemala earthquake occurred at 17:37 local time 23:37 UTC on August 6 and had ratings of 7.7 on the moment magnitude scale and 7.9 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. The epicenter was located off the southern coast of Guatemala,La construcción y el uso del terreno en Guatemala : Su vulnerabilidad sísmica February 1996 Héctor Monzón-Despang Asociacion Guatemalteca de Ingenieros Estrucurales http://desastres.usac.edu.gt/documentos/pdf/spa/doc7550/doc7550-1a.pdf 107–121 August 3, 2012August 2018 InternetArchiveBot yes and it was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded there. The earthquake caused widespread damage in the west-central highlands of Guatemala. Thirty-eight people died in the earthquake. Landslides caused by the combination of the earthquake and the heavy seasonal rains destroyed roads, the Inter-American Highway, and telegraph lines. In Tecpán, in the department of Chimaltenango, more than 60% of the houses were demolished. Damage was reported in some buildings in Antigua Guatemala, including the Palacio de Los Capitanes Generales and some catholic churches.Mundo Hispanoamericano – Fuerte seísmo en Guatemala. Ocho muertos y cuarenta heridos http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1942/08/11/017.html ABC ABC August 11, 1942 August 3, 2012 17http://www.insivumeh.gob.gt/geofisica/indice%20sismo.htm Sismología Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología August 3, 2012 The earthquake could also be felt strongly in Mexico and El Salvador.https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1942_08_06.php Historic Earthquakes – Guatemala, 1942 August 06 23:36 UTC United States Geological Survey August 3, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20160430174518/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1942_08_06.php 2016-04-30 dead This earthquake was a lower crustal intraplate earthquake with a compressional focal mechanism.Dmowska Lovison 1988August 2012 Tensional activity has been dominant along the down-dip edge along the 1942 rupture zone.Temporal variation of large intraplate earthquakes in coupled subduction zones http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/27966/1/0000397.pdf 1989 Lay Thorne Astiz Luciana Kanamori Hiroo Christensen Douglas Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors Elsevier 54 3–4 273 10.1016/0031-9201(89)90247-1 1989PEPI...54..258L 2027.42/27966 free It was estimated that earthquakes near the Middle America Trench with magnitudes of about 7.5~8.0 occurred at intervals of 94 ± 54 yrs in southwestern Guatemala. Such historical earthquakes included the earthquakes in 1765, 1902, and 1942.Seismic history of the Middle America subduction zone along El Salvador, Guatemala, and Chiapas, Mexico: 1526–2000 Randall A. White Juan Pablo Ligorría Ines Lucia Cifuentes Inés Cifuentes 2004 GSA Special Papers Geological Society of America 375 379–396 10.1130/0-8137-2375-2.379 978-0-8137-2375-4 See also List of earthquakes in 1942 List of earthquakes in Guatemala References An earthquake doublet in Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico http://www.gps.caltech.edu/uploads/File/People/kanamori/HKpepi84.pdf Luciana Astiz Hiroo Kanamori Hiroo Kanamori 1984 Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors Elsevier 34 1–2 41 10.1016/0031-9201(84)90082-7 1984PEPI...34...24A 2012-08-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20100723162119/http://www.gps.caltech.edu/uploads/File/People/kanamori/HKpepi84.pdf 2010-07-23 dead International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology Part A, Volume 81A Global seismicity: 1900–1999 E. R. Engdahl A. Vallaseñor 2002 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/centennial/centennial.pdf Academic Press First 978-0124406520 678 Sources Intermediate-term Seismic Precursors for Some Coupled Subduction Zones http://esag.harvard.edu/dmowska/DmowLov_IntTermPrecur_PAGe88.pdf Renata Dmowska Lucia C. Lovison 1988 124 2–4 Pure and Applied Geophysics Springer Science+Business Media 643–664 10.1007/bf00879013 1988PApGe.126..643D 14152520 External links 900408 Guatemala earthquake, 1942 Category:Earthquakes in Guatemala Category:Earthquakes in Mexico Category:Earthquakes in El Salvador Category:1942 in Guatemala Category:1942 in Mexico Category:1942 in El Salvador