1965 Oaxaca earthquake

Earthquake in Mexico 1965 Oaxaca earthquake 1965-08-23 19:46:04 854871 iscgem854871 1965 08 23 y 13:46:04 Mexico w y 7.5 12 km 15.38 N 96.12 W 6 dead 1965 Oaxaca earthquake.jpg USGS ShakeMap The 1965 Oaxaca earthquake occurred in Mexico on August 23 at 13:46 19:46 UTC with a moment magnitude of 7.5.Recent large earthquakes along the Middle American Trench and their implications for the subduction process Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 87 B1 329 1982 Chael Eric P Stewart Gordon S 1982JGR....87..329C 10.1029/JB087iB01p00329The Seismic Alert System for Mexico City: An Evaluation of Its Performance and a Strategy for Its Improvement Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 97 5 1718 2007 Iglesias A Singh S. K Ordaz M Santoyo M. A Pacheco J 2007BuSSA..97.1718I 10.1785/0120050202 Five people were reported dead in Mexico City and one in Oaxaca. There was an anomalous change in seismic activities before the earthquake. There was a quiescent stage from late 1963 to mid-1964, and it was followed by a renewal of seismic activities before the main shock.Seismicity gap near Oaxaca, southern Mexico as a probable precursor to a large earthquake http://www.zisin.geophys.tohoku.ac.jp/ohtake/ohtake1-20.pdf M. Ohtake T. Matumoto Gary Latham 1977 Pure and Applied Geophysics 115 1–2 375–385 10.1007/bf01637115 1977PApGe.115..375O 2010-09-11 2011-07-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20110722075751/http://www.zisin.geophys.tohoku.ac.jp/ohtake/ohtake1-20.pdf dead This earthquake was a shallow thrust earthquake in the interplate subduction zone, in which the Cocos plate is subducting beneath the North American plate.Interplate coupling and transient slip along the subduction interface beneath Oaxaca, Mexico F. Correa-Mora C. DeMets E. Cabral-Cano B Marquez-Azua O. Diaz-Molina 2008 Geophysical Journal International 175 1 269–290 10.1111/j.1365-246x.2008.03910.x 2008GeoJI.175..269C freehttp://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/seno/Papers/epsl_kato_seno.pdf Archived copy 2010-09-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20050412100049/http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/seno/Papers/epsl_kato_seno.pdf 2005-04-12 dead See also List of earthquakes in 1965 List of earthquakes in Mexico References External links 854871 Category:Earthquakes in Mexico Oaxaca Earthquake, 1965 Category:1965 in Mexico Category:1965 disasters in Mexico