Mexico Earthquake today 6.2 - 29 km SW of Las Brisas, Mexico 2022-11-22 16:39:05

 6.2 - 29 km SW of Las Brisas, Mexico

2022-11-22 16:39:05 (UTC)30.783°N 116.390°W10.0 km profundity

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Las Brisas, Baja California, Mexico

29.2 km (18.1 mi) NEPopulation: 1078

Vicente Guerrero, Baja California, Mexico

38.6 km (24 mi) EPopulation: 11455

Lázaro Cárdenas, Baja California, Mexico

52.7 km (32.7 mi) ESEPopulation: 16294

Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada, Baja California, Mexico

105.7 km (65.7 mi) NPopulation: 22957

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

223.4 km (138.8 mi) NNEPopulation: 689775

Situated on three of the enormous structural plates, Mexico is one of the world's most seismically dynamic locales. The overall movement of these crustal plates causes successive tremors and incidental volcanic emissions. The vast majority of the Mexican body of land is on the toward the west moving North American plate. The Pacific Sea floor south of Mexico is being conveyed northeastward by the basic Cocos plate. Since maritime hull is generally thick, when the Pacific Sea depths experiences the lighter mainland outside 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 union, the toward the west moving Mexico body of land is eased back and folded making the mountain scopes of southern Mexico and tremors close to Mexico's southern coast. As the maritime outside is pulled descending, it liquefies; the liquid material is then constrained vertical through shortcomings in the overlying mainland hull. This cycle 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. Previously, this general plate movement pulled Baja California from the coast shaping the Bay of California and is the reason for seismic tremors in the Bay of California district today.

Mexico has a long history of damaging seismic tremors and volcanic emissions. In September 1985, a size 8.0 seismic tremor 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 spring of gushing 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 wells of lava ("smoking mountain" and "white woman", individually), southeast of Mexico City, periodically vent gas that can be obviously seen from the City, an update that volcanic action is progressing. In 1994 and 2000 Popocatépetl recharged its action driving the clearing of neighboring towns, making seismologists and government authorities be worried about the impact an enormous scope emission could have on the vigorously populated locale. Popocatépetl fountain of liquid magma last emitted in 2010.