Earthquake — Mexico: Guerrero, Oaxaca

When

20 Mar 2012

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.4

Where

Mexico

Coordinates

16.49° N, 98.23° W

Deaths

2

Injuries

13

Damage musd

600

Houses destroyed

800

Intensity mmi

8

Depth km

20

Earthquake in the Guerrero-Oaxaca border, Mexico

The 2012 Guerrero–Oaxaca earthquake struck southern Mexico with a moment magnitude of 7.4 at 12:02 local time on Tuesday, 20 March. Its epicenter was near Ometepec, in the border between the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca. With a shallow focus of 20 km, the earthquake caused strong shaking over a large area along the Oaxaca–Guerrero border and the adjacent Pacific coastline.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills two and leaves 30,000 homeless in Oaxaca and Guerrero”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En el municipio de Ometepec (México) se registra un terremoto de 7,4, registrándose muchos daños materiales y un saldo de dos muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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