Mexico Ticui Earthquake today 6.0 - 3 km WNW of El Ticui, Mexico 2022-12-11 14:31:29

 6.0 - 3 km WNW of El Ticui, Mexico

2022-12-11 14:31:29 (UTC)17.223°N 100.475°W19.8 km profundity

Regulatory Locale

ISO

MEX

Area

Guerrero

Country

Mexico

Close by Spots

El Ticui, Guerrero, Mexico

3.3 km (2 mi) ESEPopulation: 3389

Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero, Mexico

4.8 km (3 mi) ESEPopulation: 21407

Técpan de Galeana, Guerrero, Mexico

16.5 km (10.3 mi) WPopulation: 15119

Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero, Mexico

47.6 km (29.6 mi) ESEPopulation: 13566

Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico

109.2 km (67.8 mi) ENEPopulation: 187251

Distance and course from focal point to local spot.

Structural Synopsis

Seismotectonics of Mexico

Situated on three of the huge structural plates, Mexico is one of the world's most seismically dynamic locales. The general movement of these crustal plates causes continuous quakes and incidental volcanic ejections. A large portion 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 fundamental Cocos plate. Since maritime covering is generally thick, when the Pacific Sea depths experiences the lighter mainland hull 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 combination, 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 covering. This interaction has made a district of volcanoes across south-focal Mexico known as the Cordillera Neovolcánica.

The region west of the Inlet of California, including Mexico's Baja California Landmass, 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 augmentation 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 tremors in the Bay of California district today.

Mexico has a long history of horrendous quakes and volcanic emissions. In September 1985, an extent 8.0 quake killed in excess of 9,500 individuals in Mexico City. In southern Mexico, Volcán de Colima and El Chichón ejected 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, infrequently vent gas that can be plainly seen from the City, an update that volcanic action is progressing. In 1994 and 2000 Popocatépetl reestablished its action compelling the clearing of neighboring towns, making seismologists and government authorities be worried about the impact a huge scope ejection could have on the vigorously populated locale. Popocatépetl spring of gushing lava last emitted in 2010.