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7.1 earthquake rocks Mexico City, central Mexico
CNN ^ | Updated 3:58 PM ET, Tue September 19, 2017 | By Steve Almasy, CNN

Posted on 09/19/2017 1:10:15 PM PDT by Red Badger

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck the central Mexican state of Puebla on Tuesday afternoon, the US Geological Survey said. Preliminary reports put the epicenter 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) east-northeast of San Juan Raboso and 34.1 miles (55 km) south-southwest of the city of Puebla, according to the USGS. It was felt in the center of Mexico City, which is only about 75 miles (121 km) from the epicenter.

The earthquake struck at a depth of about 33 miles (51 km). There were no immediate reports of injuries.

The governor of Puebla said on Twitter that there were reports of damaged buildings. Tony Gali urged residents to follow civil protection security protocols. Adrian Wilson, a photographer from New York City who was visiting his fiancee, was eating in the capital when the earthquake struck. "I was having lunch when the floor gently rocked as if a big truck went by," Wilson said. "It then amplified in waves and the whole room started shaking. The building is from the 1930s and just survived a big earthquake, so I knew I would be OK." Wilson told CNN: "It just seemed like a truck was going over a manhole cover and the building was slightly shaking. And it just magnified and magnified and the whole room was shaking." President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted, "I have called a meeting for the National Emergency Committee to evaluate the situation and to coordinate any actions. Plan MX has been activated."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquake; mexico; mexicocity
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To: Inyo-Mono

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eef_1505854359


41 posted on 09/19/2017 2:48:30 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Delta 21

Just Wow!

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=281_1505852810


42 posted on 09/19/2017 2:50:21 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: dfwgator

I watched several videos of low rises ... 4-6 stories swaying, then toppling like dominos. And one 8 story place with a fire within. Then suddenly the whole thing exploded and simply disappeared.


43 posted on 09/19/2017 2:50:23 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: newnhdad
LOL! Yes with all the skills in medicine and science and all that other fancy book learning we American taxpayers have been footing the bill for they should be able to rebuild Mexico into a paradise they'll never have to run away from again!
44 posted on 09/19/2017 2:51:11 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Delta 21

WOW!, again!


45 posted on 09/19/2017 2:51:35 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Inyo-Mono

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ce8_1505852686

Im gonna stop now and pray a little.


46 posted on 09/19/2017 2:53:07 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Red Badger

Not completely dry. If you ever take off from the Int’l Airport there, you can still see bits of the lake upon take-off.


47 posted on 09/19/2017 2:57:12 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: Delta 21

Unreal, and I have been through two big quakes over 6.5 on the Richter scale.


48 posted on 09/19/2017 2:57:22 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: onedoug
Subduction.

Beachball pattern indicates normal faulting. Not thrust/subduction faulting

49 posted on 09/19/2017 2:58:16 PM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: Red Badger; SkyPilot; SaveFerris

My cousin lives in a penthouse on the 42nd floor of a condo tower there. The codes are so stringent that not a thing happened to his building.

I imagine that most of the buildings that collapsed today were built before 1985, which ironically tomorrow is the 32nd anniversary of that massive earthquake there.

Praying for Mexico!


50 posted on 09/19/2017 3:03:41 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: BunnySlippers

The biggest quake I have ever felt here in Toronto wouldn’t even make Californians blink. It was at around 5am in my bed. For some reason I had been awake. A little shaking that lasted about 10 to 20 seconds. I flipped on my clock radio and the announcer said we are getting calls we had an earthquake so that confirmed to me what I had felt. I think it was a 3 something centered in upstate New York. The Adirondacks maybe. Many years ago now. Not many people are aware but there is some fault line at the bottom of Lake Ontario.


51 posted on 09/19/2017 3:07:59 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; Delta 21

That building collapse was something else

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd2_1505849565


52 posted on 09/19/2017 3:10:41 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: xp38

Interesting. We just had a couple quakes here this morning in eastern California, a 3.5 and a 3.6. Not even mentioned on the news.


53 posted on 09/19/2017 3:11:55 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: xp38

Yeah, I don’t even feel anything below a 5.

I am an LA native and my family emigrated in the mid-1800s. No one has been hurt ... ever. But the Northridge Quake scared me. I had a lot of damage to items in the house.

The most damage I ever had was from a relatively obscure fault in Whittier. The kitchen was a mess. Olive oil bottles in the kitchen smashed on the floor. And cracks in the wall. Overall, not a problem.

It’s when you sustain a quake of a certain magnitude with minor consequences, and Iraq just had the same magnitude is when you are grateful for building codes. I understand that Florida does too to compensate for the hurricanes.


54 posted on 09/19/2017 3:19:13 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: Red Badger

Are the Millions and Millions of proud Illegal Alien Mexicans rushing back home to help their countrymen??

WHY NOT??


55 posted on 09/19/2017 3:32:07 PM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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To: Red Badger

It’s Nibiru, I tell you.


56 posted on 09/19/2017 3:32:58 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: BunnySlippers

How are the plates affected by these two earthquakes?

Is there more pressure now on the California plates, and the New Madrid fault?

Or less?

Should Calif. be preparing for its own quake?


57 posted on 09/19/2017 4:09:38 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: CondorFlight

I’m not an expert, nor am I terribly concerned about New Madrid unless something happens. Statistically CA will have “the big one” before New Madrid.


58 posted on 09/19/2017 4:15:41 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: BunnySlippers

"You in the 'olive oil beeznezz' too? I'll make you an offer you cannot refuse."
59 posted on 09/19/2017 4:18:58 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

[Yawn]


60 posted on 09/19/2017 4:31:40 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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