Tag: 7.2
Did you feel it? I did. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck near the Mexico-California border on Sunday, killing at least one person as it rocked buildings and panicked residents from Tijuana to Los Angeles.
I was in Laguna at the time and it felt strong! Lasting a good 45 seconds, it shook us after our Easter Lunch.
Here is what MSNBC had to say on it…
One person died when a house in Mexicali collapsed, Alfredo Escobedo, director of emergency services in Baja California state, Mexico, told Reuters. He said others were reported trapped in elevators, retaining walls had collapsed in some places and electricity was out in several parts of the state.
The the earthquake struck at 3:40 p.m. in Baja California in Mexico, about 19 miles southeast of Mexicali, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was initially reported as a magnitude-6.9 quake. The updated magnitude was still an estimate, according to USGS seismologist Lucy Jones.
Mexicali, home to roughly a million people, is a prosperous city and a busy border crossing with the United States. Local industry is mainly agriculture, food processing plants and assembly-for-export plants.
An empty multistory parking garage under construction in Mexicali collapsed and broken gas pipes sparked a number of fires, Baja California civil protection official Eduardo Sandoval told Mexican radio. He had no reports of casualties.
In Tijuana, about 135 miles away from the epicenter, a Reuters witness said the quake visibly jolted cars in a parking lot and shook a computer on her desk. A highway between Tijuana and Mexicali was badly damaged, civil protection officials said.
The area was hit by magnitude-3.0 quakes all week.
“It’s been quite a while since we’ve had an earthquake this large,” Jones said. “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.” [Read more at MSNBC]
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There is word that this has already triggered smaller quakes up and down the west coast.
Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada
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