Sunday, April 4, 2010

quake strikes Mexico, U.S.; at least one dead

A ranking quake of 7.2 magnitudes affected Baja California future Mexico, swaying skyscrapers next San Diego and Los Angeles, whose good tremors were mat as far as Phoenix and Las Vegas as good.

The immediate impact of the quake on souls and edifices were not right away known.

The quake gone focused nearly 25 klick south-southwest of Guadalupe Victoria, the US Geological Servicing ordered, which initially read it measured around 6.9 magnitude, but quickly revised it to 7.2.


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US Geological survey said, the quake occurred hot 32 kilometres below the solid ground's surface.

"Experts have said that such a astuteness increases the happens that the world might absorb a legal age of the shock, reducing the opportunities of damage on the surface,"

The earthquake, which followed centered nearly 108 miles east of Tijuana, Mexico, many another 10 miles below the surface appeared to have caused numerous more significant damage nearer the border, including one report of a death next Mexico, but officials were still collecting information.


The quiver lasted for 35 to 55 seconds, read Lucy Jones, a seismologist at Cal Technical School, at a press group discussion. The 7.2-magnitude quake is the largest in Southern California since the 7.3 Landers quake on June 28, 1992, she told.


Dr. Jones called the astuteness of the temblor “normal for this region,” adding that 16,000 individuals had covered the quake on Cal Technical School’s network of “did you feel it” web sites. She predicted that a magnitude 6.0 aftershock would be “likely within the next few days.”


KABC Television next Los Angeles stated high-rise constructions future that city and next San Diego rocked back and forth when the quake made and that many another residents saw tense power poles moving.

The Yuma, Arizona, sheriff's department also told AFP it was responding to many building alarms but that it had no immediate reports of injuries.

The Yuma Sun described Fry's grocery store front-end manager Karla Favela identical that, "a little bit of everything" fell down every aisle of the store.

"The first affair I thought of -- have you seen the movie '2012?' The part when the grocery store splits next half?"

The USSG said it had reports that quake was found as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada, many another 460 kilometers (290 miles) from the epicenter as better as next Los Angeles, 360 kilometers (224 miles) away, and future Phoenix, Arizona, 300 kilometers (186 miles).

The quake came inside weeks of two subtle quakes in the Americas.

A January 12 temblor of 7.0 magnitude in Haiti killed an calculated 230,000 mass.

future Chile, a massive 8.8 quake on February 27 left an forecasted 452

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