EGU24-11940, updated on 12 Mar 2024

https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-11940
EGU General Assembly 2024
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Non-extensivity study of the seismicity along the Mexican Pacific

coast based on the Tsallis q-statistical approach.
Alejandro Ramírez-Rojas1, Elsa Leticia Flores-Márquez2, and Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti1
1
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciencias Básicas, Ciudad de México, Mexico (arr@correo.azc.uam.mx)
2
Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México. (leticia@igeofisica.unam.mx)

The Mexican Pacific coast has presented significant seismic activity due to the tectonic processes
that have generated it. This coast, from Baja California until Chiapas is matched with three tectonic
settings, to the north, a dispersion zone is presented in Baja California and Cortes Sea, at the
middle, conforming by Jalisco, Colima and Michoacan states, La Rivera Plate is the principal source
of seismicity and, finally the seismic activity in Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas is driven by the
Cocos Plate subduction. According with the catalogues published by the SSN, the yearly number of
earthquakes occurred is very different at each zone is very different being Cocos plate the
subduction zone that has produced the major number of earthquakes. We analyzed the
catalogues of six zones of the Mexican Pacific coast in the period between 2000 and 2023. Based
on the Tsallis q-statistical approach it is possible to assess the temporal changes of the non-
extensivity by fitting the cumulative number of earthquakes with the generalized Gutenberg-
Richter. Our preliminary results show differences in the fitting of the q-values for the six studied
regions. These results are consistent with a pervious analysis, where it was observed that the
highest q-value was obtained in Jalisco zone, while Oaxaca region reported the lowest q-value.