SALINA CRUZ

Station Information

Station ID: 689
Latitude: 16.166667
Longitude: -95.2
Coastline code: 830
Station code: 91
Country: MEXICO
Time span of data: 1952 – 1990
Completeness (%): 81
Date of last update: 14 May 2013

Green Arrow: Current Station
Yellow Marker: Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker: Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: OXTH, SLCR
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: sali2, sali
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 394: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Salina Cruz 830/091 RLR(1964) is 10.1m below BM1
Salina Cruz is an historic station. RLR data ends 1989 'Metric' data 1990. There does not appear to be any anomalies in the 1990 data RLR extended to the end of the dataset.

Documentation added 1997-01-30

Large earthquake offshore of Mexico about 19 degrees North on 9 October 1995 with large tsunami generated. See article by A.E.Filonov in EOS, 78(3), 1997.

Data Authority

Servicio Mareografico Nacional
Instituto de Geofisica, Ciudad Universitaria
Delegacion de Coyoacan
04510 Mexico D.F.