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Position of the Disastrous 1999 Puebla Earthquake in the Seismotectonic Pattern of Mexico

Jií Vank, Ale piák and Václav Hanu

Laboratory of Global Tectonics and Metallogeny
European Centre Prague
c/o Geophysical Institute
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Boni II/1401, 14131 Praha 4, Czech Republic
als{at}ig.cas.cz
(J. V., A. S., V. H.)

The location of the 1999 Puebla earthquake shows that this earthquake belongs to the class of disastrous intraplate earthquakes generated by fracturing of the continental lithosphere caused by the process of subduction. This is obvious from the vertical section across the Middle American Wadati-Benioff zone and from its position in the revised seismically active Los Azufres-Río Salado fracture zone delineated in the continental lithosphere of the North American plate.

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