Earthquake M 6.1 - 80 km SSW of Bahía de Kino, Mexico

 Seismic tremor 6.1 - 80 km SSW of Bahía de Kino, Mexico

2022-11-04 10:02:46 (UTC)28.175°N 112.303°W10.0 km profundity

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Bahía de Kino, Sonora, Mexico

80.3 km (49.9 mi) NNEPopulation: 6050

St Nick Rosalía, Baja California Sur, Mexico

92.8 km (57.7 mi) SPopulation: 11765

Miguel Alemán (La Doce), Sonora, Mexico

109.5 km (68 mi) NEPopulation: 30869

Heroica Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico

140.9 km (87.5 mi) ESEPopulation: 113082

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

165.5 km (102.9 mi) NEPopulation: 715061

Structural Synopsis

Seismotectonics of Mexico

Situated on three of the enormous structural plates, Mexico is one of the world's most seismically dynamic areas. The overall movement of these crustal plates causes continuous tremors and incidental volcanic ejections. The greater part of the Mexican expanse of land is on the toward the west moving North American plate. The Pacific Sea depths south of Mexico is being conveyed northeastward by the hidden Cocos plate. Since maritime hull is somewhat thick, when the Pacific Sea depths experiences the lighter mainland outside layer of the Mexican body of land, the sea floor is subducted underneath the North American plate making the profound Center American channel along Mexico's southern coast. Likewise because of this intermingling, the toward the west moving Mexico expanse of land is eased back and folded making the mountain scopes of southern Mexico and quakes close to Mexico's southern coast. As the maritime outside is pulled descending, it dissolves; the liquid material is then constrained vertical through shortcomings in the overlying mainland hull. This interaction has made a district of volcanoes across south-focal Mexico known as the Cordillera Neovolcánica.

The region west of the Bay of California, including Mexico's Baja California Promontory, is moving northwestward with the Pacific plate at around 50 mm each year. Here, the Pacific and North American plates grind past one another making strike-slip blaming, the southern expansion of California's San Andreas shortcoming. Before, this overall plate movement pulled Baja California from the coast framing the Bay of California and is the reason for tremors in the Bay of California district today.

Mexico has a long history of damaging quakes and volcanic emissions. In September 1985, a greatness 8.0 quake killed in excess of 9,500 individuals in Mexico City. In southern Mexico, Volcán de Colima and El Chichón emitted in 2005 and 1982, separately. Paricutín well of lava, west of Mexico City, started venting smoke in a cornfield in 1943; after 10 years this new fountain of liquid magma had developed to a level of 424 meters. Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl springs of gushing lava ("smoking mountain" and "white woman", individually), southeast of Mexico City, at times vent gas that can be obviously seen from the City, an update that volcanic movement is progressing. In 1994 and 2000 Popocatépetl reestablished its action constraining the clearing of neighboring towns, making seismologists and government authorities be worried about the impact a huge scope emission could have on the vigorously populated locale. Popocatépetl well of lava last emitted in 2010.