Posted on 05/18/2005 6:42:54 PM PDT by varina davis
Updated as of Wed May 18
23:02:18 UTC 2005.
DATE-(UTC)-TIME Latitude Longitude Depth Magnitude
Comments yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss degrees degrees km
2005/05/18 20:30:29 14.72N 89.52W 35.7 5.2 GUATEMALA
2005/05/18 19:59:42 38.41N 93.99W 5.0 3.3 MISSOURI
2005/05/18 17:03:43 29.86N 42.66W 10.0 5.1 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
Just, well, D*MN.
Prayers UP!
"When it rains it pours" seems accurate if inappropriate here.
I suppose this means another 5 million illegals coming over the border ...
They have a lot of quakes and I doubt this did any real damage at all.
Depends on where the epicenter was.
Doesn't appear to be under any major cities.
Good thing the earthquake did not hit AFTER the hurricane. The mudslides would be terrible. Of course, there could be aftershocks.
I guess there isn't much in Guatemala, though.
Good!
That expression gets to me. I work....
The temblor was centered in the ocean near the Pacific coast, the National Territorial Studies Service reported. The quake was felt in the capital, San Salvador, and other areas.
Hydrology.
Palladin wrote:
Depends on where the epicenter was.
-->Better check N-korea!
One of these days, the North Koreans are going to blow THEMSELVES up!
Where in Guatemala, plese tell me! I have a daughter there right now.
O my god. I'm shaking here.
If your daughter is in Antigua, Guatemala City or north in Xela/Quetzaltenango (a guess b/c that is where most of the tourists are located), she'll be fine.
Don't worry about the earthquake. Yes it was felt in Guatemala City and lasted for about 15 seconds but it didn't cause any damages around the country.
It's true that there are quite a few earthquakes here. Since January, we've had about 3 or 4.
The hurricane hasn't been felt (except for the rains that arrived before it and caused a considerable drop in the temperature). Toward the SSE, the roads are blocked and some people were being asked to evacuate to the capital. There are sources saying it can be as powerful as Hurrican Mitch that devestated Honduras a few years back. I have some doubts. At any rate, it's going through El Salvador, not Guatemala and shouldn't affect the people here much.
As far as the derrogatory comments on this posting threat, I am rather apalled at the ignorance of some Americans...perhaps there is a reason why much of the world despises the United States?
~Wdoerner
There is more to Guatemala than earthquakes and hurricanes! A Geography Lesson if you will…. Guatemala is the largest of the Central American nations in population and is also one of the poorest and politically most troubled. The northern half, called the Pete’n, is a sparsely populated, lowland rainforest region that offers an agricultural frontier. Colonization projects have been established there, and roads have been constructed to connect the area to the rest of the country. However, the highlands that parallel the Pacific Ocean contain the bulk of Guatemala’s population. In the western part of the highlands live most of the Indians, who follow traditional ways of life and still maintain many customs of their Mayan ancestors. The Indians have long been discriminated against by mestizos and whites, who follow European, or Ladino, lifestyles in and around Guatemala City, the nation’s social, economic, industrial, educational, and political center. Along the southern coast and slopes of the adjacent mountains lies the main commercial agricultural zone. Sugar, coffee, and cattle are widely produced. In addition to its failure to integrate the Indians, who constitutes approximately half the national population, Guatemala’s development was seriously retarded by a 36-year civil war that resulted in the deaths or disappearance of more than 200,000 persons and the polarization of society between right- and left-wing sympathizers. A peace accord brought an official end to the war in 1996, but acts of civil violence continue to occur, and the healing process is far from complete. Alas, there are people Guatemalans who get up every day, go to work every day, fed their kids every day. Yea, Yea, sounds preachy, unfortunately or fortunately I have always been on the humanity side of things and when I hear derogatory statements about any country, people, kids, cows, alligators whatever I take the side of the underdog and try to help. If you have derogatory feelings about other people it usually implies that you are just trying to make yourself feel better at the expense of someone else. Stop and smell the roses, you will like yourself better, you will care what happens in Guatemala. Believe it or not, what happens in Guatemala influences your life. We are a global economy. We are part of the human race.
Spare me the psycho-babble. I made a statemnet based on recent history. When hurricane Mitch hit, it started a mass exodus from the country:
On May 20 the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) announced a major change in policy, altering regulations that had left a gaping disparity among refugees from Nicaragua and Cuba, and refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala.
As of June 21, undocumented immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala will be allowed to acquire permanent residency as political refugees, a status they have been seeking for nearly two decades.
The new regulations cover refugees that arrived in the US before October 1990, or an estimated 240,000 undocumented immigrants. Since spouses and minor children are included, some estimate that as many as half a million people will be eligible for permanent residency under the new rules.
http://www.rtfcam.org/report/volume_19/No_3/article10.htm
And a great deal of them landed in Northern Va, where we don't have the roads or schools to accomodate them ... I'll stop there ...
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