What the records say
- When
- 20 Mar 2012
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 16.49° N, 98.23° W
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 13
- Damage musd
- 600
- Houses destroyed
- 800
- Max water height m
- 0.2
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.4
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2012 Guerrero–Oaxaca earthquake
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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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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