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1995 Guerrero earthquake
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Earthquake in Mexico
1995 Guerrero earthquake 1995-09-14 14:04:31 usp00073c5 84239 September 14, 1995 08:04 Mexico
7.4 w y 23 km 16.779 N 98.597 W Mexico 7 3 killed
The 1995 Guerrero earthquake occurred on September 14, 1995, at 14:04 UTC (08:04 local time). This earthquake had a magnitude of w y 7.4, with the epicenter being located in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Three people were reported dead. In the rural part of southeast Guerrero, many houses with adobe of poor quality suffered heavier damage.http://www.capac.org/web/Portals/0/biblioteca_virtual/doc002/CONGRESOS/Sordo_XCNIE.pdf INICIO 2011-07-29 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120328083814/http://www.capac.org/web/Portals/0/biblioteca_virtual/doc002/CONGRESOS/Sordo_XCNIE.pdf 2012-03-28 The intensity in Copala reached MM VII.The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, October 12-17, 2008 Beijing, China Gama-García A. Gómez-Berna A. Relationships between instrumental ground motion parameters, and modified Mercalli intensity in Guerrero, Mexico http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/14_07-0103.PDF The earthquake could be felt strongly along the coast from Michoacán to Chiapas.https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_1995.php Significant Earthquakes of the World 2010-03-13 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110608020600/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_1995.php 2011-06-08
Tectonic setting
The earthquake occurred in the region of the Middle America Trench. It was an interplate earthquake. It had a reverse faulting focal mechanism.Furumura T. Singh S. K. Regional Wave Propagation from Mexican Subduction Zone Earthquakes: The Attenuation Functions for Interplate and Inslab Events Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America August 2002 92 6 21102125 10.1785/0120010278 2002BuSSA..92.2110F https://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/people/furumura/pdf/FurumuraSingh2002.pdfThe 14 September 1995 (M = 7.3) Copala, Mexico, earthquake: A source study using teleseismic, regional, and local data https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article/87/4/999/120251/the-14-september-1995-m-7-3-copala-mexico F. Courboulex M. A. Santoyo J. F. Pacheco S. K. Singh 1997 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 87 4 999–1010 10.1785/BSSA0870040999 1997BuSSA..87..999C 131652894 subscription
See also
1964 Guerrero earthquake
2026 Guerrero earthquake
List of earthquakes in 1995
List of earthquakes in Mexico
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