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Movement in the North American Plate and the Cocos Plate off the coast of Southern Mexico.

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At 7:18 AM, Cocos Plate started to flow underneath the North American Plate, creating a subduction zone.

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Lázaro Cárdenas, a city in Mexico was the epicenter of this 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

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When the Cocos Plate drifted under the North American plate, it forced the ground in Mexico to shake for approximately three minutes due to the 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

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Even though the earthquake happened in Lázaro

Cárdenas, 606 km away, the capital city still felt the 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

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Around 600 building were destroyed and roughly 10,000 people were killed.