Seismic response of the Mexico City Basin: A review of twenty years of research

H Flores-Estrella, S Yussim, C Lomnitz - Natural Hazards, 2007 - Springer
Mexico City, political and economic center of Mexico, was founded in a lake, at more than
2000 m above sea level. The lacustrine mud under the downtown area is associated with …

Site-city seismic interaction in Mexico city–like environments: An analytical study

P Guéguen, PY Bard… - Bulletin of the …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent destructive earthquakes have confirmed the importance of hazard and vulnerability
studies to predict and prevent the impact of large seisms. Most seismic risk analysis …

Long duration of ground motion in the paradigmatic valley of Mexico

VM Cruz-Atienza, J Tago, JD Sanabria-Gómez… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Built-up on top of ancient lake deposits, Mexico City experiences some of the largest seismic
site effects worldwide. Besides the extreme amplification of seismic waves, duration of …

Probing environmental and tectonic changes underneath Mexico City with the urban seismic field

LA Ermert, E Cabral-Cano, E Chaussard… - Solid Earth, 2023 - se.copernicus.org
Abstract The sediments underneath Mexico City have unique mechanical properties that
give rise to strong site effects. We investigated temporal changes in the seismic velocity at …

[PDF][PDF] Crustal structure south of the Mexican volcanic belt, based on group velocity dispersion

M Campillo, SK Singh, N Shapiro… - GEOFISICA …, 1996 - scholar.archive.org
An average shear-wave velocity structure of the crust has been estimated for paths between
the Guerrero-Michoacan coast, along the Mexican subduction zone, and Mexico City. This …

Surface-wave propagation across the Mexican Volcanic Belt and the origin of the long-period seismic-wave amplification in the Valley of Mexico

NM Shapiro, M Campillo, A Paul… - Geophysical Journal …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
A network of nine broad-band seismographs was operated from March to May 1994 to study
the propagation of seismic waves across the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB) in the region of …

Three-dimensional numerical modeling of ground motion in the Valley of Mexico: A case study from the Mw3. 2 earthquake of July 17, 2019

VM Hernández-Aguirre, R Paolucci… - Earthquake …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, a 3D physics-based numerical approach, based on the spectral element
numerical code SPEED, is used to simulate seismic wave propagation due to a local …

Dynamic deformations of shallow sediments in the Valley of Mexico, Part I: Three-dimensional strains and rotations recorded on a seismic array

P Bodin, J Gomberg, SK Singh… - Bulletin of the …, 1997 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We study the spatial variation in earthquake ground motions, or equivalently the dynamic
displacement gradient field, using a novel analysis procedure borrowed from geodesy …

A Source Study of the  7.0 Acapulco, Mexico, Earthquake of 8 September 2021

A Iglesias, SK Singh… - Seismological …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Acapulco earthquake of 2021 broke a segment of the southeast Guerrero seismic gap
along the Mexican subduction thrust. The rupture initiated offshore Acapulco (16.770° N …

Identification of surface wave higher modes using a methodology based on seismic noise and coda waves

D Rivet, M Campillo, F Sanchez-Sesma… - Geophysical Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Dispersion analysis of Rayleigh waves is performed to assess the velocity of complex
structures such as sedimentary basins. At short periods several modes of the Rayleigh …