Earthquake shakes Mexico City

MSN News ^ | 4/18/14 | AP

[illiac]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A seemingly strong earthquake is shaking Mexico's capital.

There is no immediate word of damage or casualties and seismologists have not yet issued a calculation of its power or epicenter.

Mexico City is vulnerable even to distant earthquakes because much of it sits atop the muddy sediments of drained lake beds that quiver as quake waves hit.

[Southack]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133142/Monster-volcano-looming-Mexico-City-spews-ash-steam—authorities-ready-population-evacuation.html

[mylife]

Scary stuff.

[Straight Vermonter]

Much of Port Royal, Jamaica was destroyed in 1692 when liquefaction caused by an earthquake made entire neighborhoods submerge and disappear.

[mylife]

Scary stuff.

[mylife]

It basically becomes quicksand.

[American Constitutionalist]

Or ? how about that old film of a earthquake in a harbor ? and you can see the bottom of the harbor fall out....