Over a century of sinking in Mexico City: No hope for significant elevation and storage capacity recovery

E Chaussard, E Havazli, H Fattahi… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many areas worldwide are known to experience land subsidence due to groundwater
extraction. It is traditionally assumed that subsidence extent and rates are controlled by …

Source‐dependent amplification of earthquake ground motions in deep sedimentary basins

EA Wirth, JE Vidale, AD Frankel, TL Pratt… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Deep sedimentary basins amplify long‐period shaking from seismic waves, increasing the
seismic hazard for cities sited on such basins. We perform 3‐D simulations of point source …

Probing environmental and tectonic changes underneath Mexico City with the urban seismic field

LA Ermert, E Cabral-Cano, E Chaussard… - Solid Earth, 2023 - se.copernicus.org
Abstract The sediments underneath Mexico City have unique mechanical properties that
give rise to strong site effects. We investigated temporal changes in the seismic velocity at …

Parametric and machine learning-based analysis of the seismic vulnerability of adobe historical buildings damaged after the September 2017 Mexico Earthquakes

R Ramírez Eudave, TM Ferreira, R Vicente… - International Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In September 2017, two strong earthquakes hit the central region of Mexico, producing
substantial damage to the historical buildings. A retroactive analysis for assessing the pre …

The 30 November 2018  7.1 Anchorage Earthquake

ME West, A Bender, M Gardine… - Seismological …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The M w 7.1 47 km deep earthquake that occurred on 30 November 2018 had deep
societal impacts across southcentral Alaska and exhibited phenomena of broad scientific …

Environmental effects caused by the Mw 8.2, September 8, 2017, and Mw 7.4, June 23, 2020, Chiapas-Oaxaca (Mexico) subduction events: comparison of large …

MM Velázquez-Bucio, MF Ferrario, E Muccignato… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Earthquake Environmental Effects (EEEs) such as surface faulting, landslides,
liquefaction and tsunamis are widely distributed following strong seismic events and may …

Catalog of preinstrumental earthquakes in central Mexico: Epicentral and magnitude estimations based on macroseismic data

G Suárez, D Ruiz‐Barón… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present the first parametric catalog of historical earthquakes in Mexico from 1469 to
1912 composed of 323 historical earthquakes. The historical earthquakes were assigned to …

Response of mid-rise reinforced concrete frame buildings to the 2017 Puebla earthquake

CA Arteta, J Carrillo, J Archbold, D Gaspar… - Earthquake …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The response of mid-rise reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in Mexico City after the 2017
Puebla Earthquake is assessed through combined field and computational investigation …

Long‐lived tsunami edge waves and shelf resonance from the M8. 2 Tehuantepec earthquake

D Melgar, A Ruiz‐Angulo - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 8 September 2017 M8. 2 Tehuantepec, Mexico, earthquake ruptured an~ 150‐
km‐long high‐angle normal fault below the subduction zone megathrust. A tsunami was …

Proposed methodology for estimating the magnitude at which subduction megathrust ground motions and source dimensions exhibit a break in magnitude scaling …

KW Campbell - Earthquake Spectra, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, I propose a method for estimating the magnitude (MB) at which subduction
megathrust earthquakes are expected to exhibit a break in magnitude scaling of both …