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04 Apr 10 - 08:01 PM (#2879671) Subject: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice Amos... did you feel it? |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:02 PM (#2879672) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice map |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:15 PM (#2879676) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Desert Dancer 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 |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:16 PM (#2879677) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Q (Frank Staplin) In farmland, epicenter 16 mi. SSW of Guadalupe Victoria, depth abt. 20 miles. Felt as far N as Los Angeles. |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:19 PM (#2879681) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: The Fooles Troupe On the news here in Oz - and reports of 2 sizeable aftershocks. Best wishes to Mudcatters over there. Robin |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:21 PM (#2879682) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice 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 |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:27 PM (#2879685) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice USGS has changed the depth stats of the 7.2 quake to 10km (6.21 mi), more shallow than the previous report. |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:27 PM (#2879688) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Desert Dancer Felt further north than L.A. -- this USGS map shows and links the "Did you feel it?" results. |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:29 PM (#2879689) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Desert Dancer (Regarding my 8:15 Mudcat time post - that would be "southwest Arizona", not "southeast"! |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:32 PM (#2879692) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:44 PM (#2879694) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice 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 |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:47 PM (#2879696) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: GUEST,mg Goodness...I hope there no fatalities... I had just plugged in my emergency radio..any talk of tsunamis up the coast? mg |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:51 PM (#2879698) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice 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. |
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04 Apr 10 - 08:57 PM (#2879701) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice 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 |
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04 Apr 10 - 09:11 PM (#2879709) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice Video of dramatic waves in shaking swimming pool |
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04 Apr 10 - 09:20 PM (#2879717) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice LA Times article, including the info from the Cal Tech press conference I meantioned above. click |
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04 Apr 10 - 10:32 PM (#2879747) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Amos 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 |
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04 Apr 10 - 10:36 PM (#2879749) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice Reminds me of the last big Yellowstone earthquake in the '50s. The ground looked like it was rolling, like waves of water. Alice |
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04 Apr 10 - 11:01 PM (#2879759) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: open mike what;s normal? glad you are safe, Amos.. |
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05 Apr 10 - 04:19 AM (#2879835) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Rapparee ANOTHER reason to move from California. |
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05 Apr 10 - 05:01 AM (#2879848) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: catspaw49 The guy on the pool video is a riot......."Holy Crap!"........I think he says that about 20 times LOL......... Spaw |
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05 Apr 10 - 05:36 AM (#2879856) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: John MacKenzie How many times did he say, "It's still goin'!" |
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05 Apr 10 - 07:35 AM (#2879898) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Bobert 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~ |
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05 Apr 10 - 07:40 AM (#2879903) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Amos Bobert: My time ain't yet, buddy, and when my time arrives, I expect to be somewhere else, anyway. :D A |
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05 Apr 10 - 10:59 AM (#2880001) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Ebbie 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! |
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05 Apr 10 - 11:11 AM (#2880013) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: John MacKenzie 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" |
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05 Apr 10 - 12:13 PM (#2880043) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice 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? |
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05 Apr 10 - 09:01 PM (#2880352) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice 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. |
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06 Apr 10 - 07:27 PM (#2881012) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: Alice Sumatra - a 7.8 quake just happened. Tsunami warning. Same area of Indonesia that experienced the big tsunami in 2004. |
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06 Apr 10 - 10:31 PM (#2881094) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity 7.7 in Indonesia this afternoon...I suspect California will be next within two weeks..possibly within the month. GfS |
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07 Apr 10 - 10:09 PM (#2881831) Subject: RE: BS: 7.2 quake Baja Calif Mexico From: GUEST,leeneia 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." |