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California Shaking- & Baja Too!
Roads were torn up, buildings cracked and electricity posts toppled on Monday after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook cities in northern Mexico and Southern California, but few casualties were reported. This of course was not the BIG ONE (there are to be six more in 2010) that the web bot linguistics have predicted. But, could it be a precursor to it?
Mexican civil protection officials said at least one man died in a collapsed house and about 100 more were injured in Sunday's quake. Another person was killed in a car accident on a darkened street in Mexicali, a border city near the epicenter of Sunday's quake, which was almost entirely without power.
Some buildings in Mexicali appeared to have structural damage and many had cracked floors, walls and broken windows, though no major buildings collapsed.
But, lest we focus on just ONE 7.2 quake, how about all the others? Others!
The USGS website has listed 211 earthquakes from the time of the 7.2 shaker near Mexicali Sunday until this morning about 5:30 AM CST. Of all these quakes, 114 were in Baja, California, a few were closer to Sonora Mexico, but a pretty good number (85) were in southern California. Much like the swarm of quakes earlier this year in Yellowstone, something is going on down below and it's probably not good for the West Coast particularly.
While the 7.2 and only two dead is not a 'great quake' the amount of aftershocks are a concern because there's always the possibility that movement along the eastern periphery of the Pacific Ring of Fire could be setting up tensions elsewhere. In fact, bank it!
The relatively shallow quake was centered in a lightly populated area in northeastern Baja California. For several hours a series of aftershocks rocked the area around the epicenter, 30 miles southeast of Mexicali. Across the border in the U.S. town of Calexico, eight downtown blocks were closed off with Border Patrol agents helping police to secure the area against looters. Haiti was the really devastating one in terms of lives lost, Chile was bigger and yet the country was better prepared, but a San Andreas earthquake could be a real deal maker- in the worst sense.
Who knows? Stay tuned.
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