Guerrero-Michoacan (Mexico City)




September 19, 1985, M8.0 Earthquake
Available Information
EERI REPORTS
- Newsletter Articles
- Reconnaissance Team Reports
- Observations on the Earthquake in Mexico City from the May 1987 Newsletter [PDF]
- Impressions of the Guerrero-Michoacan, Mexico, Earthquake of 19 September 1985: A Preliminary Reconnaissance Report, published in cooperation with the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, November 1985, 36 pp. [PDF]
- Earthquake Spectra Articles
- The Culprit in Mexico City – Amplification of Motions, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 3, no. 2 (May 1987), pp. 315-328
- Performance of Steel Structures in the September 19 and 20, 1985 Mexico Earthquakes, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 3, no. 2 (May 1987), pp. 329-346
- Mexico Earthquake of September 19, 1985, Earthquake Spectra
- Part A: Vol. 4, no. 3 (August 1988), pp. 413-652
- Part B: Vol. 4, no. 4 (November 1988), pp. 653-870
- Part C: Vol. 5, no. 1 (February 1989), pp. 1-298
- Evaluation of the Effects of the 1985 Michoacan Earthquake on the Water Systems in Metropolitan Mexico City, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 6, no. 3 (August 1990), pp. 473-496
- Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) Field Report – British earthquake engineers, architects and academics from the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)