Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

More than 2,000 earthquakes were recorded in Mexico during the month of September

The earthquakes will continue in Mexico because the country is in an area prone to tectonic plate movements, on the so-called Ring of Fire, which is a tectonic chain that surrounds the Pacific Ocean and has a length of 40 thousand kilometers.

This belt causes 90% of the world's seismic activity, in addition to being made up of 75 percent of the world's active volcanoes .

After the earthquakes last month on September 19 and 22, the National Seismological Service reported 2,603 ​​earthquakes with epicenters within Mexico, the magnitudes of these events . . .

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