RT Journal Article
T1 The seismic sequences of December 2015 (ML=4.3) and May 2016 (ML=4.9) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
A1 Núñez-Cornú, Francisco J.
A1 Rengifo, Walter M.
A1 Escalona-Alcázar, Felipe d. J.
A1 Núñez Escribano, Diana
A1 Quinteros-Cartaya, Clauda B.
A1 Trejo-Gómez, Elizabeth
A1 Suárez-Plascencia, Carlos
AB Historically, the city of Guadalajara has been affected not only by great regional earthquakes (M > 7.0) associated with the subduction process and regional crustal structures but also by local seismic sequences, that caused moderate to severe structural damage to buildings, whose source is not clear. Between December 2015 and May 2016, two seismic sequences occurred, affecting the city of Guadalajara. Both seismic sequences were recorded by the Jalisco Seismic Accelerometric Telemetric Network. The preliminary locations for May 2016 sequence estimated by the Antelope automatic system show alignment with an NNE-SSW trend, west of the city of Guadalajara. The subsequent relocations of theses earthquakes show two N–S alignments at the west of the city of Guadalajara, which agree with December 2015 hypocenters. The focal mechanisms analysis of the earthquakes shows that most of them correspond to normal fault mechanisms that are parallel to the hypocentral alignments suggesting the existence of two active faults responsible for the seismic sequences. Furthermore, these structures might constitute a graben, which we refer to as Zapopan Graben. Additionally, we calculated that these faults are 21 and 28 km length, respectively, which indicates that could have the potential to generate shallow earthquakes that reach magnitudes of 6.2 and 6.5, and could cause significant damages in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone.
PB Elsevier
SN 0895-9811
YR 2021
FD 2021-02-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99953
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99953
LA eng
NO Francisco Javier Núñez Cornú, Walter Manuel Rengifo, Felipe de Jesús Escalona Alcázar, Diana Núñez, Claudia Beatriz Quinteros Cartaya, Elizabeth Trejo Gómez, Carlos Suárez Plascencia, The seismic sequences of December 2015 (ML= 4.3) and May 2016 (ML = 4.9) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Volume 108, 2021, 103201, ISSN 0895-9811, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103201.
NO Está depositada la versión postprint del artículo
NO Centro Mexicano de Innovación en Energía Geotérmica 
NO Proyecto Secretaría de Energía Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (SENERCONACyT)
NO Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología - Fondos Mixtos Jalisco (CONACyTFOMIXJal)
NO CONACyT-FOMIXJal
NO Universidad de Guadalajara
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025