mabar said:
Windmill knight said:
The irony is that yesterday the sismic alert in Mexico City was wrongly triggered, that is several hours before the real one. Some headline read: "somebody pressed the wrong button". Also, there have been a number of storms and floods in the city. Mega solar flares, mega huricanes, mega earthquakes, all after a solar eclipe in North America, hmm...
Yes, hmm, hope Irma does not become stronger ... I heard the "false" sismic alert yesterday, and I wonder about, perhaps it was as those sismic measurement form Irma's _http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/irma-hurricane-strength-category-earthquake-measurement-seismometer-a7931286.html ...
There has been around 185 aftershocks, and it has been upgraded to 8.2 according to National Sismic Service _http://www.ssn.unam.mx/
It was quite an scare, the tremor was felt slow and later a strong "pull", it last like 3 minutes, more scaring as well when the transformers explode and lights went out, managed to calm down after several pipe breaths, although it was difficult to get asleep.
Glad to hear from those located in Mexico and that everyone is O.K. Please stay safe! The video's coming out of Mexico shows a lot of damage and destruction.
Interesting about the sismic alert being trigger several hours before the strong quake materialized. I've read past article of that same quirk happening in San Francisco - where toll bells would ring for a few minutes and then stop, only to have an earthquake hit about an hour or two later.
Reports are coming in of causalities in the Mexican quake.
Toll in Mexico quake rises to at least 32
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tsunami-warning-magnitude-8-quake-rocks-mexico-usgs-055538866.html
Mexico was severely jolted overnight by its most powerful earthquake in a century, which killed at least 32 people as it struck the Pacific coast, officials said Friday.
President Enrique Pena Nieto described the 8.2 magnitude quake as "a major earthquake in scale and magnitude, the strongest in the past 100 years."
The southeastern Pacific coast states of Oaxaca and Chiapas appeared to have borne the brunt of the damage, with 23 people killed in Oaxaca alone, Governor Alejandro Murat said.
The worst destruction appeared to be in Juchitan, in the state of Oaxaca, where 17 people were confirmed dead, according to the head of the emergency response agency, Ricardo de la Cruz.
Officials said the death toll there could rise.
"There are houses that collapsed with people inside," Luis Felipe Puente, the agency's director general, told TV news channel Milenio.
A hotel also collapsed in Juchitan, the town hall partly caved in and many homes were badly damaged.
Two children were killed in neighboring Tabasco state, the governor said.
One was crushed by a collapsing wall. The other, an infant on a respirator, died after the quake triggered a power outage.
The quake epicenter was about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the coastal town of Tonala, in far southern Chiapas state, and hit at 11:49 pm Thursday (0449 GMT Friday), Mexico's seismologic service said.
The US Geological Survey put the magnitude slightly lower, at 8.1. That is the same as a devastating 1985 earthquake that killed more than 10,000 people in Mexico City -- the country's most destructive ever.
The quake shook a large swath of the country and was felt as far north as Mexico City -- some 800 kilometers from the epicenter -- where people fled their homes after hearing sirens go off as buildings trembled and swayed.
Mexico is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes, given its location and its Pacific and Atlantic coastlines, and is hit by a least a dozen weather events a year.
RT says the president is saying it was the strongest in a century: https://www.rt.com/news/402415-tsunami-quake-mexico-shore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS The good thing is that the weakest buildings already fell back in 85, and presumably anything built since then was built with that in mind, which would explain the much less damage in comparison.
