7.2 Earthquake in Baja, California (Mexico)

[The rabbit]

Just heard via Dylan Avery´s FB he experienced earthquake at the airport

It was a 6.9 one in Baja, California (Mexico) Another one just hit Northern California. It was a 4.1.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

 

[darthdo]

Re: Earthquake ...6.9 one in Baja, California (Mexico)

Pity the people who suffered. Almost 7 degrees, that's pretty strong. Apparently this type of strong movements around the globe will continue to be the tonic.

 

[Vulcan59]

Re: Earthquake ...6.9 one in Baja, California (Mexico)

USGS states that it was a 7.2. :)

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/206153-Magnitude-7-2-Baja-California-Mexico

 

[Ca.]

Re: Earthquake ...6.9 one in Baja, California (Mexico)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A powerful earthquake in Baja California rocked the U.S.-Mexico border region Sunday, collapsing a parking structure south of the border and causing power outages in both countries as it sent out seismic waves felt from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and Arizona.

The 7.2-magnitude quake struck at 3:40 p.m. about 19 miles southeast of Mexicali, a bustling commerce center on the Mexican side of the border where trucks carrying goods cross into California. More than 900,000 people live in the greater Mexicali area.

It was the largest earthquake in the region in nearly 18 years and was followed by aftershocks or distant "triggered" earthquakes on both sides of the border, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones.

A multistory parking structure collapsed at the Mexicali city hall but no one was injured, said Baja California state Civil Protection Director Alfredo Escobedo.

Other early reports indicated only minor damage, but communication in the region more than 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles is often slow.

"I grabbed my children and said, 'Let's go outside, hurry, hurry!"' said Elizabeth Alvarez, 54, who said the quake hit as she was getting ready to leave her house with her children in an eastern Tijuana neighborhood, across the border from San Diego.

Hundreds of people fled Tijuana's beach fearing a tsunami, said Capt. Juan Manuel Hernandez, chief of aquatic rescue at the Tijuana fire department. Tsunami experts quickly reported that no tsunami was expected along the West Coast, and Hernandez said the beach filled back up with people within an hour.

Tijuana Fire Chief Rafael Carillo said firefighters were rescuing people trapped in an elevator at the Ticuan Hotel in downtown Tijuana, but mostly were responding to reports of fallen cables and minor damage to buildings.

The Crowne Plaza hotel in Mexicali had minor damage - burst pipes and broken windows - but no on was hurt, said receptionist Juan Carlos Fernandez.

"There was a little bit of panic," Fernandez said. "Wait, it's trembling again."

Guests fled their rooms at the Hotel Playa Club in San Felipe, on the Gulf of California, but there was no damage, said receptionist Araceli Marquez.

Seismologists said there have been many earthquakes in the region including many in the magnitude-3.0 range before Sunday's big shock.

"The last time we had an earthquake this large in either Baja or California was in 1992 with the Landers Earthquake, which was 7.3," Jones said.

The USGS reported three strong aftershocks within the hour, including a magnitude-5.1 jolt in the Imperial County desert east of San Diego. Magnitude-4.5 and magnitude-4.3 aftershocks were also reported. Another occurred off Malibu.

The 7.2-magnitude quake was felt as far north as Santa Barbara, USGS seismologist Susan Potter said. It was one of the strongest to hit California in recent history. Only one has been stronger - a 7.3 quake that hit Landers, Calif., and left three dead in 1992 - and there were at least two other 7.2-magnitude quakes in the last 20 years.

Seismologists also said a number of small quakes were triggered in a geothermal area in Northern California.

More than 5,000 Southern California Edison customers were affected, mostly with about 30 seconds of flickering lights. Several hundred had longer outages.

In Arizona, 3,369 customers in the Yuma area had a "relatively momentary outage" from the quake, Arizona Public Service Company spokesman Don Wool said.

Only about 70 people were still without service in the rural Gadsden and Summerton areas. But Wool said he expected electricity to be restored there in about two hours.

Clint Norred, a spokesman for the Yuma, Ariz., Police Department, said the quake was very strong there but he'd heard no reports of injuries or major damage.

In the Phoenix area, Jacqueline Land said her king-sized bed in her second-floor apartment felt like a boat gently swaying on the ocean.

"I thought to myself, 'That can't be an earthquake. I'm in Arizona,"' the Northern California native said.

Comments from a local news paper.


The correct name for Tsunami is actually Stunami. Please read backward and they shall see!


OMG! said on: April 4, 2010, 8:43 pm
It lasted about 1 minute. Wasn't even scary. It was fun.

ifyouonlyknew said on: April 4, 2010, 8:20 pm
i was at the wild animal park when it happened. you should have been there.

Percy_ said on: April 4, 2010, 8:07 pm
Tsunami warning?

Percy_ said on: April 4, 2010, 8:07 pm
Mazz!!
Puuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!


Mazz said on: April 4, 2010, 7:43 pm
Barely felt it. Yes, baby, the earth did move for me!

GayGrill said on: April 4, 2010, 7:39 pm
The walls shook, the floors moved, the door jams moved, the dog ran into the shower..it was the longest earthquake I have experienced in over 50 years here. Scary, heavy adrenaline and couldn't move an inch. Just waited for it to be over. Talked to many, many of my friends and family and they all said the same thing along with vertigo, nausea and shakey legs. What a perspective on life when we remember Mother Earth controls it all.

goodtimes said on: April 4, 2010, 6:48 pm
I've lived in San Diego Count for almost 57 years and this was the most shaking this native has ever felt. I hope that there are no injuries or too much damage in Mexico.

Percy_ said on: April 4, 2010, 6:43 pm
Could've been worse Wally P, ALIENS!!!!!

Wally P said on: April 4, 2010, 6:28 pm
We're all gonna die.
Run for your lives!

Percy_ said on: April 4, 2010, 6:15 pm
There's a biggy on the way!

Esterhazy said on: April 4, 2010, 5:51 pm
We live in Phoenix and felt this earthquake!

Tattletale said on: April 4, 2010, 4:56 pm
Earthquake on Easter Sunday, HHMMMMM?

Wally P said on: April 4, 2010, 4:36 pm
It scared kitty.

Euroamer said on: April 4, 2010, 4:09 pm
We live in Escondido by North County Fair and that was the most the house shook in the ten years living here,that was scary so the bearing doorway was where we stood until it was over. Lasted at least four to five minutes and then about half hour later there was a little one. Glad to be moving back to Az now.

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[DJM]

Is The Baja Peninsula Breaking Away?

After reading the following article on SOTT and seeing the seismic data from the USGS Earthquake site, makes me wonder if the Baja Peninsula is breaking away from the American Continent.

Water bubbling up from the ground.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/206246-Mexico-At-Quake-s-Epicenter-Water-Gurgled-From-Ground
http://www.news4jax.com/nationalnews/23061910/detail.html

Guadalupe Victoria -- After the ground shook violently, small cracks formed on the rich soil and cement floors. They quickly became big cracks, spouting groundwater.

That's how the Briseno family watched all seven of their homes sink to ruin on a single block, forcing them to sleep in their cars indefinitely.

The family has one of the more dramatic tales of loss from the epicenter of Easter Sunday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Mexico that has left many afraid to go inside, whether at home or at work.

"The earth just opened up, like a pencil goes across a sheet of paper, like a stripe goes across the floor," said Diona Garcia Briseno, the oldest of five siblings, who lost a home that she shared with her husband and their two children, 18 and 10.

Garcia Briseno, 38, saw the ground crack and cough up water as she waited out the quake outside her home. After the shaking, she went inside to find that her cement floor was gurgling muddy water from underground. It lasted about six hours.

"It didn't come out with lots of force, but it was constant," she said.

Authorities said Monday that dozens of homes and businesses were destroyed in the earthquake, all of them in the city of Mexicali and small surrounding farming towns in a valley that's lined with canals. Two people died: a 94-year-old man and an unidentified transient.

Asphalt buckled on streets all around the Briseno family's tiny farming village of Oaxaca, leaving gaps several feet (meters) wide. Dirt crevices that spouted water can be seen almost everywhere, some dry and some now puddles.

Raul Lepe, 45, pointed to a 30-foot (9-meter) -long opening that ran across a dirt lot and spewed "small volcanoes of water" behind his clothing store. The floor of his home suffered cracks, forcing him to sleep in his pickup truck until an inspector visits.

No one appears to have suffered as much property loss as the Briseno family, whose ancestors were one of the town's early settlers. Cruz Briseno arrived in Oaxaca as a young man shortly after the 1910 Mexican Revolution.

Raquel Briseno, Cruz's daughter, divided the family plot on Avenida Emiliano Zapata, giving a piece each to four children, keeping one for herself and leaving two for her brothers. The small, cinderblock homes on the dirt road are tightly spaced.

Farming has always driven the economy. The men in the Briseno family support their households by working six days a week for the equivalent of about $65 in a region where onions, radishes, asparagus and cucumbers are grown.

Residents of neighboring Guadalupe Victoria, the closest town to the epicenter, are accustomed to earthquakes but nothing prepared them for Sunday's jolt. Some people aren't sure if they'll ever feel safe again.

Sergio Ruiz Escalante, a 51-year-old construction worker, moved his family's beds outside to the back patio to sleep under the stars with his wife and three children. A fence fell outside his home but there was no other visible damage. He doesn't know when he'll sleep inside.

"I need to wait before I can go in with confidence," he said Monday while buying batteries in a variety store where ceiling tiles hung loose and shampoo bottles still littered the floor.

Karla Jaramillo, an elementary school teacher in Guadalupe Victoria, said her school was built about 40 years ago and already survived a big earthquake in 1980.

"I wish the schools would have fallen," said Jaramillo, 30. "I wish the kids didn't have to go inside a damaged building."

Alfredo Soria, a 41-year-old lifelong resident, escaped with minor damage to his home -- a damaged brick fence -- but he's uneasy about going back. The dwelling across the street was also built around 1960 and was reduced to rubble Sunday, and he's convinced his own home will endure a similar fate when the next quake strikes.

"It's already survived two earthquakes, it's not safe," said Soria, who is sleeping in his pickup with his three children.

The Briseno family doesn't know where to go next. For now, they are sleeping in cars at the town's soccer field. The floors and walls of their homes are severely cracked, and thus uninhabitable. Several of their houses have about a foot (30 centimeters) of water and have sunk several inches (centimeters).

Palmira Briseno, 31, said cracks spewed muddy water in her home.

"It was like there were fountains everywhere," she recalled.

On Monday, about 10 people from the extended family sat under a tent made of wood poles and black plastic tarp, eating chips and chilis. Water that spewed from underground inundates their street.

Garcia's 10-year-old daughter hugged her during an aftershock and fought tears.

The USGS website shows most of the activity is coming from Baja (Almost 200 today). Granted, these are aftershocks. It's just overwhelming to see so many in one area. The residents must be on nerves end with aftershocks taking place every couple of minutes apart.

Weekly Earthquake Listing: (Too much data to cut & Paste)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

Take a look at this busy map. (I'll try to attach this)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/27.37.-120.-110.php


Peace

 

[un chien anadolu]

There is a recent 7.8 earththquake in Sumatra-Indonesia. It's now on the news and no further details.

 

[Caustic]

I live about 100 miles away from the epicenter of last night's mag 5.7 aftershock near Ocotillo, Ca.
I felt 2 earthquakes within 5 minutes. In the past 24 hours there have been ~ 300 aftershocks > magnitude 2.0
according to www.SCSN.org at least 14,000 aftershocks since the magnitude 7.2 earthquake. The aftershocks seem to be moving North.

The June 14th event probably occurred on a northwest striking fault that follows the trend of the Elsinore fault in this region. The Elsinore fault is more than 110 miles long, and extends into the Orange County and Los Angeles area as the Whittier fault. The Elsinore fault is capable of a major earthquake that would significantly affect the large metropolitan areas of southern California. The Elsinore fault has not hosted a major earthquake in more than 100 years. The occurrence of this aftershock and its own aftershock sequence, and the M4.9 earthquake that occurred along the San Jacinto fault on June 12th 2010 demonstrate that the earthquake activity in the region remains at an elevated level. The San Jacinto fault is known as the most active earthquake fault in southern California

 

[RyanX]

I live about 100 miles away from the epicenter of last night's mag 5.7 aftershock near Ocotillo, Ca.
I felt 2 earthquakes within 5 minutes. In the past 24 hours there have been ~ 300 aftershocks > magnitude 2.0
according to www.SCSN.org at least 14,000 aftershocks since the magnitude 7.2 earthquake. The aftershocks seem to be moving North.

The June 14th event probably occurred on a northwest striking fault that follows the trend of the Elsinore fault in this region. The Elsinore fault is more than 110 miles long, and extends into the Orange County and Los Angeles area as the Whittier fault. The Elsinore fault is capable of a major earthquake that would significantly affect the large metropolitan areas of southern California. The Elsinore fault has not hosted a major earthquake in more than 100 years. The occurrence of this aftershock and its own aftershock sequence, and the M4.9 earthquake that occurred along the San Jacinto fault on June 12th 2010 demonstrate that the earthquake activity in the region remains at an elevated level. The San Jacinto fault is known as the most active earthquake fault in southern California

There's definitely something going on under CA right now. Check this out:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

If you scroll down, look at the data for 6/15. There are so many entries for "Southern California" its almost unbelievable!

On another note, isn't this constant and persistent rumbling usually taken as an indicator in volcanic areas that an eruption is imminent?

 

[Caustic]

There's definitely something going on under CA right now. Check this out:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

If you scroll down, look at the data for 6/15. There are so many entries for "Southern California" its almost unbelievable!

On another note, isn't this constant and persistent rumbling usually taken as an indicator in volcanic areas that an eruption is imminent?

yes, frequent low magnitude earthquakes could be an indication of magma intrusion fracturing rocks. There have been hundreds of earthquakes within a 3 mile radius to the south east of Ocotillo, Ca. in the past few days. Most of the quakes are less than 10km deep. If magma is that shallow and these quakes are from magma intrusion into fault zones, this could mean an eruption is possible. But there is no historic volcano there, possibly a new one is about to appear? The area has a number of geothermal power plants currently operating nearby. Perhaps the geothermal plants are contributing to the earthquakes by injecting high pressure water into the fault zone.

 

[LadyCeleste]

Hello!

Well, I know about this situation. I live in Tijuana and we felt the whole earthquake when it happened!

It felt like if the house was about to break down, it was really strong and it was the same magnitude as the one in Haiti, but the good thing is that Baja California and its buildings and houses are stronger than over there.

I feel really bad for all the people who's in that situation right now, and I know the fear that causes when the earthquake's going on. We've had so many replicas that we don't feel them no more. And also, a few days ago, there was another one of 6.4 in Borrego, California.

I'm just wondering if there's something else behind this. Sometimes, I just don't know if it's shaking or if it's just me, haha.

I hope I can move out from Tijuana as soon as possible, most likely, I don't want to be here when this place goes somewhere else if it's going to.

Greetings.