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Mexico’s 1887 Sonora earthquake: Lessons from the aftershocks

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Dr Castro analyses seismic activity in the Mexican Basin after the 1887 Sonora earthquake

In May 1887, a magnitude (Mw) 7.5 earthquake rocked Sonora, Mexico. While the immediate effects impacted local communities, the event has become the world’s longest recorded normal-fault rupture in historic time. Professor Raúl Castro from the Department of Seismology at CICESE, Mexico, used a network of seismic monitoring equipment to uncover evidence that aftershocks from the 1887 event are still […]

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