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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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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.
WOW!, again!
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.
Unreal, and I have been through two big quakes over 6.5 on the Richter scale.
Beachball pattern indicates normal faulting. Not thrust/subduction faulting
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!
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.
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.
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.
Are the Millions and Millions of proud Illegal Alien Mexicans rushing back home to help their countrymen??
WHY NOT??
It’s Nibiru, I tell you.
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?
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.
[Yawn]
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