{"id":20197,"date":"2018-10-28T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20197"},"modified":"2024-06-28T03:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:43:50","slug":"mexicos-2017-tehuantepec-quake-suggests-a-new-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20197","title":{"rendered":"Mexico&#8217;s 2017 Tehuantepec quake suggests a new worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/earthquake-crack-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"earthquake-crack\" width=\"795\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/earthquake-crack-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/earthquake-crack-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/earthquake-crack.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last September&#8217;s magnitude 8.2 Tehuantepec earthquake happened deep, rupturing both mantle and crust, on the landward side of major subduction zone in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico&#8217;s far south coast.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, it was believed the earthquake was related to a seismic gap, occurring where the Cocos ocean plate is being overridden by a continental plate, in an area that had not had a quake of such magnitude since 1787. Subduction zone megaquakes generally occur near the top of where plates converge.<\/p>\n<p>The epicenter, however, was 46 kilometers (28 miles) deep in the Cocos plate, well under the overriding plate and where existing earthquake modeling had said it shouldn&#8217;t happen, a 13-member research team reported Oct. 1 in the journal Nature Geoscience after an analysis of data from multiple sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/self-sufficiency\/mexico-s-2017-tehuantepec-quake-suggests-a-new-worry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/self-sufficiency\/mexico-s-2017-tehuantepec-quake-suggests-a-new-worry\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last September&#8217;s magnitude 8.2 Tehuantepec earthquake happened deep, rupturing both mantle and crust, on the landward side of major subduction zone in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico&#8217;s far south coast. Initially, it was believed the earthquake was related to a seismic gap, occurring where the Cocos ocean plate is being overridden by a continental plate, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mexico&#8217;s 2017 Tehuantepec quake suggests a new worry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50928,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20197\/revisions\/50928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}