1941 Colima earthquake

Earthquake in Mexico 1941 Colima earthquake 1941-04-15 19:09:56 900764 iscgem900764 1941 04 15 13:09 Mexico 7.7 s y 35 km 18.85 N 102.94 W Mexico 10 90 killed The 1941 Colima earthquake occurred on April 15 at 19:09 UTC (13:09 local time).Kostoglodov Vladimir Ponce Lautaro Relationship between subduction and seismicity in the Mexican part of the Middle America Trench Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 10 January 1994 99 B1 729–742 10.1029/93JB01556 1994JGR....99..729K Santoyo M. A. Space-Time Clustering of Large Thrust Earthquakes along the Mexican Subduction Zone: An Evidence of Source Stress Interaction Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1 October 2005 95 5 1856–1864 10.1785/0120040185 2005BuSSA..95.1856S 2433/193414 Nishenko S. P. Singh S. K. Conditional probabilities for the recurrence of large and great interplate earthquakes along the Mexican subduction zone Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1 December 1987 77 6 2095–2114 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article/77/6/2095/119030/ The epicenter was located in the State of Michoacán, Mexico.M7.8 Tecomán, Colima, Mexico Earthquake of 22 January 2003 United States Geological Survey dead ftp://hazards.cr.usgs.gov/maps/sigeqs/20030122/20030122.pdf The magnitude of this earthquake was put at Ms 7.7 or Mw 7.7.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 978-0-12-440652-0 705 The intensities were X (Extreme) in Colima, VIII (Severe) in Manzanillo,Singh S. K. Pacheco J. F. Alcantara L. Reyes G. Ordaz M. Iglesias A. Alcocer S. M. Gutierrez C. Valdes C. Kostoglodov V. Reyes C. Mikumo T. Quaas R. Anderson J. G. A Preliminary Report on the Tecoman, Mexico Earthquake of 22 January 2003 (Mw 7.4) and Its Effects Seismological Research Letters 1 May 2003 74 3 279–289 10.1785/gssrl.74.3.279 2003SeiRL..74..279S and V (Moderate) in Mexico City.http://desastres.usac.edu.gt/documentos/pdf/spa/doc4647/doc4647-contenido.pdf Archived copy 2011-07-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20120328034901/http://desastres.usac.edu.gt/documentos/pdf/spa/doc4647/doc4647-contenido.pdf 2012-03-28 Ninety people were reported dead. The cathedral of Colima was destroyed.http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/es/DocumentosPublicos/PDF/SerieImpacto/Impacto1.pdf Archived copy 2011-07-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20111007095949/http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/es/DocumentosPublicos/PDF/SerieImpacto/Impacto1.pdf 2011-10-07 Many houses and public buildings in Colima, including the Federal Palace (Palacio federal) and the Hidalgo Theater (Teatro Hidalgo), were damaged.http://elcomentario.ucol.mx/ El Comentario / Periódico Oficial de la Universidad de Colimahttp://culturacolima.gob.mx/espacios.php?o=teatrohidalgoFebruary 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Of the 8,000 houses in the city of Colima, 900 or 2000 collapsed, according to different sources.http://digeset.ucol.mx/tesis_posgrado/Pdf/JOSE_FRANCISCO_VENTURA_RAMIREZ.pdf Archived copy 2011-07-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20120328063732/http://digeset.ucol.mx/tesis_posgrado/Pdf/JOSE_FRANCISCO_VENTURA_RAMIREZ.pdf 2012-03-28 This earthquake was an interplate earthquake between the Cocos plate and the North American plate.http://www.gps.caltech.edu/uploads/File/People/kanamori/HKbssa87c.pdf Archived copy 2011-07-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20110614090122/http://www.gps.caltech.edu/uploads/File/People/kanamori/HKbssa87c.pdf 2011-06-14 It occurred in the Colima region of the Middle America Trench. This earthquake was very close to where the 1973 Colima earthquake occurred.Santoyo Miguel A. Mikumo Takeshi Quintanar Luis Faulting process and coseismic stress change during the 30 January, 1973, Colima, Mexico interplate earthquake (Mw=7.6) Geofísica Internacional September 2006 45 3 163–178 10.22201/igeof.00167169p.2006.45.3.203 2006GeofI..45..163S free https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/568/56845302.pdf From the locally recorded time intervals between the arrival of the S wave and the P wave (S−P times) and from the felt intensities, it is suggested that the rupture zone of this earthquake was larger than the 1973 earthquake and may have extended into the rupture zone of the 1985 Michoacán earthquake. See also List of earthquakes in 1941 List of earthquakes in Mexico References External links 900764 Category:1941 earthquakes Category:Earthquakes in Mexico Category:1941 in Mexico Category:History of Colima Category:History of Michoacán Category:Natural history of Colima Category:Natural history of Michoacán Category:1941 disasters in Mexico Category:April 1941 in Mexico