When you have many earthquakes, some will be on the same day. There is a 50% probability that among 23 people, 2 will share a birthday.
“Similar earthquakes have occurred in Mexico during different dates of the year.” The likelihood of such a large earthquake striking is “totally independent of the month or the date,” says Hector Gonzales-Huizar, a seismologist at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California. Though many people may find the coincidence rather curious - that three intense earthquakes shook this region on September 19 of various years - there is no scientific significance to the date. It also came less than an hour after the country performed a memorial earthquake drill.
Monday’s earthquake struck along the west coast.Ĭoincidently, the quake fell on the anniversary of two other large earthquakes in the region: the 2017 Puebla earthquake and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Tsunami Warning System.Ī magnitude-7.6 quake struck along the western coast of Central Mexico at 1:05 p.m. The earthquake, which struck roughly 35 kilometers (22 miles) east of Monday’s epicenter, activated the earthquake early warning alert in Mexico City. local time, according to the Servicio Sismológico Nacional, Mexico’s national seismic agency. A magnitude-6.9 aftershock struck coastal Mexico at 1:16 a.m.
#CALIFORNIA EARTH QUAKE SEPTEMBER 23 UPDATE#
Update Sept 22, 1:49 a.m.: Mexico was rocked by a strong earthquake for the second time in three days.
The quake struck less than an hour after a national earthquake drill.
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