This Sunday the Benito Juárez mayor’s officein Mexico City, was epicenter of a earthquake of magnitude 1.3, according to the National Seismological Service (SSN), without requiring the activation of the seismic alert.
How was the earthquake this Sunday?
As reported by SSN of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) through its Twitter account, the telluric movement it was recorded at 12:49 p.m. with a magnitude of 1.3 and an epicenter southwest of the demarcation.
Likewise, the SkyAlert platform highlighted that the tremor was perceived strongly only in the area close to the epicenterlocated one block north of the sunken parkwhile in other municipalities it was imperceptible, since it would have occurred at a depth of around 2 kilometers.
CDMX earthquakes
While on the same social network some users claimed to have trepidatory movement directionwith greater force in its vertical axis than in the horizontal one, as well as of short duration, while the majority highlighted not noticing it.
While some users like @AlMaXx8017, who claims to be a geophysicist, highlighted that the telluric movement this Sunday was a “geologically normal event of origen intraplaca (superficial deformation of the North American plate)”.
He added that the “rearrangement of efforts in the lacustrine zone” of the Valley of Mexico, coinciding with the Department of Seismology of the Department of Geophysics of the UNAM, which highlights that the microsismos They are caused by small ruptures inside the earth, close to the surface.
In addition, the types of soil on which the capital of the country rests, which go through hilly, transitional and lacustrine zones, make them feel more felt in some points, as well as to the overexploitation of aquifersas SkyAlert points out, since it can generate subsidence and movements in the ground.