BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico

Subject: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:01 PM

Amos... did you feel it?

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:02 PM

map

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:15 PM

astro felt it in L.A., enough to decide he didn't want to be in his office, a native Californian friend of mind noticed it around the corner here in Tucson, Arizona. (We're in a 2nd floor apartment and did not notice it among the normal rumbles.) The USGS has a "Did you feel it?" reporting function, and there are plenty of reports from Phoenix and Tucson and elsewhere in southeast Arizona.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:16 PM

In farmland, epicenter 16 mi. SSW of Guadalupe Victoria, depth abt. 20 miles.
Felt as far N as Los Angeles.

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:19 PM

On the news here in Oz - and reports of 2 sizeable aftershocks. Best wishes to Mudcatters over there.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:21 PM

Before I started this thread, I was watching the USGS site statistics and also live news reports on CNN.
I used to vacation in San Felipe, Baja, south of the epicenter.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:27 PM

USGS has changed the depth stats of the 7.2 quake to 10km (6.21 mi), more shallow than the previous report.

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:27 PM

Felt further north than L.A. -- this USGS map shows and links the "Did you feel it?" results.

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:29 PM

(Regarding my 8:15 Mudcat time post - that would be "southwest Arizona", not "southeast"!

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:32 PM

Google aerial map-
Map

Click on Guadalupe and enlarge on balloon A. Gives detail of farms, and rough country to the SSW where the epicenter was located.

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:44 PM

Just watched a press conference by a seismologist at Cal Tech.

She said expect more triggered quake events (not just after shockes) for days, farther away from the epicenter.

The last earthquake about this size in southern California triggered quakes in days afterward even in Nevada.

There is a 5% chance that there will be a quake in larger magnitude than the 7.2. She said it is likely that there will be another quake in that area of around 6 in coming days.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:47 PM

Goodness...I hope there no fatalities...

I had just plugged in my emergency radio..any talk of tsunamis up the coast? mg

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:51 PM

It was inland, mg. It was a strike-slip earthquake on a fault that runs north and south in California and Baja Mexico, not near the Pacific coast. The Imperial Valley of California and Mexicali, Mexico, are the largest population near the epicenter.

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 08:57 PM

Hospital evacuated in Mexicali. Buildings damaged.

Seeing photos now on CNN of Mexicali where there is serious damage to buildings. Communication lines there are down including radio and tv stations. The reports are coming in through Twitter from residents in the area.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 09:11 PM

Video of dramatic waves in shaking swimming pool

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 09:20 PM

LA Times article, including the info from the Cal Tech press conference I meantioned above.

click

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Amos
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 10:32 PM

We all ran outside when the house started quivering and waving upward and downwartd. It was quite bemusing, as no major damage was occurring but all the things we usually measure stability by--roads, sidewalks, walls--were waving like a slow surf passing under, and did so for about thirty seconds.

Aside from a short aftershock everything seemed to return to normal in a few minutes, and no harm done.


A

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 10:36 PM

Reminds me of the last big Yellowstone earthquake in the '50s. The ground looked like it was rolling, like waves of water.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: open mike
Date: 04 Apr 10 - 11:01 PM

what;s normal?

glad you are safe, Amos..

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 04:19 AM

ANOTHER reason to move from California.

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 05:01 AM

The guy on the pool video is a riot......."Holy Crap!"........I think he says that about 20 times LOL.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 05:36 AM

How many times did he say, "It's still goin'!"

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 07:35 AM

How well do you swim, Amos??? I been tryin' to tell to get out but, no, you have to sit right there in the target zone sippin' yer cappichinos and smoking dope... I don't know about ya'll out there on the left coast???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Amos
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 07:40 AM

Bobert:

My time ain't yet, buddy, and when my time arrives, I expect to be somewhere else, anyway.


:D


A

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 10:59 AM

The guy on the pool video is a riot......."Holy Crap!"........I think he says that about 20 times LOL.........

Spaw

How many times did he say, "It's still goin'!" John Mackenzie

I kind of expect that to become a catchphrase: "It's still goin', Carol!" By now, we all know Carol.

We do get excited, don't we. lol

Reminds me of once when I was on a local bus and a young woman boarded, gave her mother a slip of paper and told her that she wrote 'his' phone number on it: 463-1790 and not to lose it.

Her mother said, 463-1970?

Her daughter: No. 463-1790.

90? 7?
463-1790.
19?
463-1790.
463-19?

Read it, Mom, daughter says and jumps off the bus.

Mom looks at the paper, says: 463-1970?

Half of the bus cries out: 463-1790!

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 11:11 AM

Chinese whispers

Reminds of the joke about the Seargeant Major sending a messge back down the line, during an engagement with the enemy.
His message to HQ was, "We're going to advance, send reinforcements"
by the time it had been passed down the line by word of mouth, and got to headquarters, the message they received was.
"We're going to a dance, send three and forpence"

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 12:13 PM

Youtube today is full of videos with sloshing swimming pools.

Here is one closer to the epicenter, and the waves are splashing out both ends of the pool.

The guy asks "Is it still going on?" His wife says, "I don't think so."

LOL

Is it still going on?

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 09:01 PM

video of dust rising up in mountains near Mexican quake epicenter

Now that is interesting video.... people driving south of Mexicali during the earthquake stop and video the clouds of dust rising up from the mountain range. I've been in the Baja mountains near there on a trek to see petroglyphs and fossils. Very dry, not much vegetation.

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: Alice
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 07:27 PM

Sumatra - a 7.8 quake just happened. Tsunami warning. Same area of Indonesia that experienced the big tsunami in 2004.

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:31 PM

7.7 in Indonesia this afternoon...I suspect California will be next within two weeks..possibly within the month.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 10:09 PM

If I ever experience an earthquake, I will be taking steps to assure my own safety. After I've done that, THEN I might make some videos.

When the water starts sloshing and the chandelier starts to sway, a big one might come along any second. Don't get out the camera - get to safety.

Alice, thanks for the link to the extraordinary mountain dust. Those people would have been a lot safer in their car, I believe.

I love it when she finally says "Let's get away from these power lines."