The Jalisco region of western Mexico is the locus of interaction among the North America, Cocos, and Rivera plates, giving rise to the Jalisco block. This region is one of the most tectonically active in Mexico, and here took place the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake in Mexico the twentieth century, on 3 June 1932 (M 8.2), three important tsunamis in the last 100 yrs, and two of the most active volcanoes in Mexico. Nevertheless, the first seismicity studies here, undertaken with temporary networks, did not commence until 1994. In 2008, the Government of Jalisco and the University of Guadalajara funded a research project to install a seismic network in this region. The principal objective was to study the seismic hazard in the region and characterize seismic parameters in the different areas to design building codes. The Red Sísmica y Acelerométrica Telemétrica de Jalisco (RESAJ) project was thus initiated in 2009. Its Central Lab is at Centro de Sismología y Volcanología de Occidente (SisVOc), located at the Universidad de Guadalajara in Puerto Vallarta. Currently, the RESAJ has 26 telemetered and 2 autonomous stations. The RESAJ serves as the seismological lab for the postgraduate program at SisVOc.
<p>The Municipality of Zapopan, Jalisco, is located west of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone at the intersection of three rift zones: Tepic-Zacoalco, Chapala-Tula, and Colima. The importance of this region lies in the recent population growth that it has experienced in a few years. This growth has been supported by the development in commercial and service activities, and mainly in industry and technology, being ranked as the second-most populous city in Mexico, behind the federal capital.</p><p>The western region of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone (GMZ) has numerous fault systems where, historically, there have been significant earthquakes and seismic swarms such as those that occurred in 1685-1687, 1875, 1932, 1995 and 2002, showing similar characteristics. Besides, it is in this region where the Caldera de la Primavera is located, a rhyolitic volcanic caldera that continues presenting seismic and geothermal activity.</p><p>Recently, in the years 2015 and 2016, new seismic swarms occurred and were recorded instrumentally for the first time by the Jalisco Seismic and Accelerometric Network (RESAJ). The two seismic sequences took place in two alignments in the same direction as the Colima rift. These epicenters suggest the existence of two almost parallel normal faults, and that would be forming the Graben of Zapopan. Due to the length of these faults, 16 km for the east fault, and 28 km for the west fault, earthquakes of magnitudes 6.2 - 6.5 could be generated.</p><p>In the framework of the CeMIEGeo P-24 project (SENER-CONACyT), we continue studying the seismicity of this region with the deployment of 25 seismic stations in the vicinity of La Caldera de la Primavera. This study revealed the high seismicity that was taking place in the area of &#8203;&#8203;Zapopan, Tesist&#225;n Valley, and La Caldera de la Primavera.</p><p>Based on these new studies and the knowledge of the seismic history of the region, a collaboration agreement has been established between the Research Group UDG-CA-276 SisVOc and Civil Protection of the Municipality of Zapopan for the installation of a local seismic network that will allow to define tectonic and structurally the fault systems of the region and mitigate the possible effects of the local seismicity in the population. Since May 2019, three Obsidian 8X seismic stations with Lennartz 1Hz LE3D and Episensor sensors and two accelerometers installed in the city have been operating, constituting the Zapopan Seismic and Accelerometric Network (RESAZ). The RESAZ operates together with the nearest stations of the RESAJ. In this work, we present the first results of the seismicity analysis recorded in Zapopan.</p>
<p>The geodynamic complexity in the interaction between Rivera, Cocos and NOAM plates is mainly reflected in the high and not well located seismicity of the region. In the framework of TsuJal Project, a study of the passive seismic activity was carried out. A temporal seismic network with 25 Obsidian stations with sensor Le-3D MkIII were deploying from the northern part of Nayarit state to the south of Colima state, including the Marias Islands, in addition to the Jalisco telemetric Seismic Network, being a total of 50 seismic stations on land. Offshore, ten Ocean Bottom Seismographs type LCHEAPO 2000 with 4 channels (3 seismic short period and 1 pressure sensors) were deployed and recover by the BO El Puma from UNAM in an array from the Marias Islands to off coast of the border of Colima and Michoacan state, in the period from 19th April to 7th November 2016.</p><p>A seismic sequence started on May 7, 2016 with an earthquake Mw = 5.6 reported by CMT-Harvard, USGS and SSN at the area north of Paleo Rivera Transform fault and west of the Middle America Trench, an area with a very complex tectonics due to the interaction of Rivera, Cocos and NOAM plates.</p><p>An analysis of this earthquake sequence from May 7 to May 11 using data from OBS and adequate P-Wave velocity model for Rivera plate is presented, 87 earthquakes were located. Data from onland stations were integrated after a travel-time residual analysis.</p><p>We observed that the new location is about 50 km southwest direction, from previous one, between the Paleo Rivera Transform fault and the northern tip of the East Pacific Rise &#8211; Pacific Cocos Segment.&#160; This area has a different tectonic stress regime.</p>
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