What the records say
- When
- 15 Jun 1999
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.0
- Where
- Mexico
- Coordinates
- 18.39° N, 97.44° W
- Deaths
- 20
- Injuries
- 200
- Damage musd
- 226.8
- Depth km
- 70
1999 Tehuacán earthquake
Earthquake in Mexico
The 1999 Tehuacán earthquake, or the 1999 Central Mexico earthquake, occurred on June 15 at 15:42 local time near Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, close to the state of Oaxaca. The earthquake measured 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale.
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3 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1999 Tehuacán earthquake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En México se registra un fuerte terremoto de 7,0 que deja 14 muertos, 200 heridos y graves daños en el estado de Puebla”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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