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INTRODUCTION

The Valley of Mexico (VM), located in eastern part of the Trans‐Mexican volcanic
belt (TMVB), is the political and economic center of Mexico, as well as the most
populated zone of the country (almost 10% of total population live in metropolitan
area of VM, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía [INEGI], 2016). Built on
an ancient lacustrine soil, Mexico City (and its surroundings) is a high contrast
zone from a geological and economic point of view. From the economic and social
aspect, the greatest increase of population, due mainly to migration, and therefore
the growing of urban area, has taken place toward the ancient lacustrine zones,
which has caused Additionally, because Mexico is a highly seismic country, the
population of the city has also suffered the effects of earthquakes, which
sometimes have been really disastrous (Lomnitz and Castaños, 1985; Chávez‐García
and Bard, 1994). From this perspective, several studies have been published in an
effort to understand wave propagation characteristics and site effects inside the
VM; an extensive review of those works can be found in Flores‐Estrella et al.
(2007). At the same time, important actions have been taken to mitigate seismic
hazard in the VM; one of the first ones was the development and installation of the
Mexico City’s Seismic Alert System (Espinosa‐Aranda et al., 1995, 2009). On the
other hand, in the past 10 yrs, significant efforts have been made to provide the
VM with a seismic network capable to detect both seismicity of low magnitude
originated in this zone (
), and large magnitude events (
) that occur primarily along the well‐characterized subduction zone margin, which
are more prone to generate high Mercalli intensities and thus a large economic and
social impact along the valley. In this article, we describe the development,
technical characteristics, and potential application of data from the Seismic
Network of VM—Red Sísmica del Valle de México (RSVM).

GEOLOGICAL SETTING

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