Mexican National Seismological Centre
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The Mexican National Seismological Service , was founded on September 5, 1910, by the Mexican government as part of an international effort to monitor seismic activity. It became part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...

(UNAM) in 1929, and it became an adjunct department of UNAM's Geophysics Institute in 1948.

Nine monitoring stations were established between 1910 and 1923, seven of which continue to operate to date, constituting one of the oldest monitoring systems that have operated continuously in the American continent. Currently, the SSN has 22 seismic observatories and has plans to add 11 more to its nationwide system.
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