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Mexico Earthquake Research Paper

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In the history of Mexico, there are many geological natural disasters that has happened there. Starting with earthquakes, there were 67 earthquakes there. First off, an earthquake is a violent shake in the ground, it happens because of the tectonic plates in the crust moving. The worst earthquakes that has happened this year in mexico is Los Mochis, Sinaloa. It had a magnitude of 6.6 but, that’s nothing compared to what happened 30 years ago. In Las Guacamayas, Michoacan de Ocampo, and earthquakes with a magnitude of 8.0 happened. It happened (UTC time) Thursday, September 19, 1985 13:17 PM. Now with volcanoes, there were 42 volcanoes in mexico, the most active volcanoes of the country are Popocatepetl, Colima and El Chichon, which had a major

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