[winoneforthegipper]

Shallow...could be trouble.

[winoneforthegipper]

Looks like it came a few days earlier....!

[tnlibertarian]

Whoa. That’s what we get for laughing at the earthquake predicting thread from this morning. They were two days early.

[tnlibertarian]

Whoa. That’s what we get for laughing at the earthquake predicting thread from this morning. They were two days early.

[Artemis Webb]

Could be a LOT of trouble.

[AtlasStalled]

Apparently it happened in a really remote region, and hopefully the deaths and injuries will be minimal to none.

[Moose4]

Felt as far away as Mexico City, apparently.

Expect news media to go wall-to-wall with “is Malia Obama safe!?!?!?!” stories in 3...2...1...

}:-)4

[haywoodwebb]

FYI: Not that far from Oaxaca . . .

[SF_Redux]

OAXACA, Mexico - The elder daughter of U.S. President Barack Obama is spending her spring break in the historic Mexican city of Oaxaca in the company of 12 friends, a state police official said

http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/Obama+daughter+spends+spring+break+Mexico/6323773/story.html

[Freddd]

from the link..

has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude

7.6

Date-Time

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 18:02:48 UTC
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 12:02:48 PM at epicenter

Location

16.662°N, 98.188°W

Depth

17.5 km (10.9 miles)

Region

OAXACA, MEXICO

Isn’t that where Malia Ann Obama is and her 12 friends?

[hope]

ping

[thesearethetimes...]

Prayers up.

[thesearethetimes...]

Good news from twitter, no damage reports yet.

[AtlasStalled]

Of course, all-drama-all-the-time CNN is ginning up its coverage by soliciting for iReports, and the breast-beating crowd with its oh-the-humanity chants is warming up off camera while waiting for its cue.

[MeganC]

Lots of unreinforced cinder block structures down there so this will be awful.

[GreenHornet]

As much as I dislike Obama, I certainly don't want to see any harm come to his daughter or those other kids who are travelling with her.

(Silver lining: This will bring a lot of media attention to the trip, which the White House has been trying their best to downplay. It will also cause a lot of people to ask why it was necessary to spend all that taxpayer money to send the first daughter and 12 friends down there in the first place.)

[old school]

That’s a large quake. If it happens in an urban center, it’s big trouble.

[NavyCanDo]

In comparison, our 6.8 Nisqually Earthquake from 2001 was 32 miles deep. A 7.6 at 10 miles deep must be brutal.

[NavyCanDo]

Adding this to the long list of Big Events first heard about while viewing FreeRepublic.

[tcrlaf]

BUSH’S FAULT! Obama inherited the Mexican Earthquake.

MSNBC HEADLINE:
Evil Tea Party Attacks Obama Daughter With Racist Earthquake!