Central Mexico Earthquake June 15, 1999

Map by Rodolfo B. Sancio, reprinted from the UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Report

Reports from the Field

Preliminary Geotechnical Engineering Report, J M Pestana, M J Mendoza, J M Mayoral, R E S Moss, R B Sancio, R B Seed, J D Bray, M P Romo ... UC Berkeley, July 1999 [ HTML | PDF ]
Structural Damage, Sergio Alcocer ... National Center for Disaster Prevention (CENEPRED), Mexico, June 1999
Preliminary Damage Assessment, J Aguirre, J Lermo, H Mijares, M Ordaz, L Alcántara, D Almora, M A Macías, B Nájera, M Ortega, R Quass, J Pacheco, S K Singh, G González Pomposo, E Reinoso ... Instituto de Ingenieria, UNAM, June 1999 (PDF in Spanish)

The Mexico earthquake of September 19, 1985 -- past decisions, present danger: an historical perspective on ecology and earthquakes in Mexico City; S Tobriner; Earthquake Spectra, 4:3, August 1988, pages 469-479
The history of seismic design code in Mexico; G Lopez; Bulletin of the International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Vol 31, 1997, pages 141-160
Seismic zonation of Puebla, Mexico; C Ruiz and J Juarez; Eleventh World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1996, Paper No. 1647
Seismic microzonation of the city of Puebla, Mexico; F J Chavez-Garcia et al; Third International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, 1995, Vol II, pages 545-548

July 29, 1999 EERC Library