Mexico scientists call for increased seismic monitoring in Yucatan Peninsula

Researchers are calling for enhanced geophysical studies and continuous monitoring infrastructure in the Yucatan Peninsula following unusual seismic activity. Over the past year, a series of low to moderate magnitude events, ranging between 3.8 and 4.2 degrees, have been recorded near the Ticul Fault.

Gerardo Suárez Reynoso, an emeritus researcher from the Institute of Geophysics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), warned that current instrumentation in the southeast is insufficient to accurately determine the cortical dynamics of these movements. While the peninsula has historically been classified as an area of low intraplate seismicity, the recent frequency of events has prompted calls to install temporary networks of short-period seismometers and broadband stations to better characterize the regional geological structure.