Yesterday a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck fundamental Mexico. At the fourth dimension of writing at that spot convey been 216 confirmed deaths from the quake.
The U.S. Geological Survey's interactive map locates the epicenter of the quake close the town of Raboso inwards Puebla, 76 miles southeast of United Mexican States City. The USGS's Latest Earthquakes Map includes options to thought earthquake action over the final 24 hours, the final calendar week or the final month. The map likewise shows plate boundaries. Mapbox's Live Earthquake Tracker is likewise a nicely designed map of the same USGS data, allowing y'all to thought the place too the size of the well-nigh recent seismic action roughly the public on a global map.
The New York Times has created a seismic action map which shows that although United Mexican States City is 76 miles from the epicenter of yesterday's quake it nonetheless experienced intense seismic activity. United Mexican States City is built on an ancient lake bed. The soft reason nether United Mexican States City is known to hold out prone to seismic activity. When earthquake waves piece of job past times through the reason it vibrates too magnifies the waves.
The number of seismic action tin dismiss thus hold out catastrophic for United Mexican States City's buildings. The NYT article includes a map of buildings that convey collapsed inwards the urban marrow too lots of photos of the destruction caused. Yesterday's quake occurred on the anniversary of the horrific 1985 earthquake which damaged roughly 3,000 buildings inwards the city. It appears yesterday's earthquake has non caused that scale of harm to the city's buildings. After the 1985 quake United Mexican States City introduced to a greater extent than stringent edifice codes. Those codes in all likelihood saved a lot of lives yesterday.
H5N1 Google Map, Edificios Colapsados Sismo 2017 nineteen Sep, is likewise documenting the place of collapsed buildings inwards United Mexican States City. Buildings on this map are beingness categorized past times the marking of harm caused past times the quake.
