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    7.1 Earthquake in Mexico City

    http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-m...919-story.html

    It looks pretty bad, a bunch of building collapses and partial collapses reported.
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    Let's hope for the best.

    Mexico has building codes that take earthquakes into consideration but there is little money to hire inspectors and there is always corruption.
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    Wow again?
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    7.1 in Mexico ? Please bitch, we've got 7.3 in Azeroth.

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    Plenty of rubble to start building a wall.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigma View Post
    Plenty of rubble to start building a wall.
    Can you seriously not?
    People died, tons of buildings/homes collapsed and this is what you have to say. Have a heart, they're people too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigma View Post
    Plenty of rubble to start building a wall.
    You shouldn't have any reason to dislike Mexican people who are currently living in Mexico.
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    Because fuck you, that's why.

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    Exactly 30 years to the day of another massive earthquake to hit the same spot.

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    So 2016 was the year of a million celebrity deaths, 2017 is the year of constant ridiculous natural disasters? Ugh.
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    Very very sad. Prayers for the victims
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigma View Post
    Plenty of rubble to start building a wall.
    Holy hell, really?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigma View Post
    Plenty of rubble to start building a wall.
    Ouch, the edge on this one.

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    130+ dead so far, I feel for the families.

    I was in two earthquakes, one I was out in the middle of a field of soybeans at a stop light. The only way I knew it was an earthquake was that the stoplight poles were shaking wildly. The other was Southern CA. I was on the fifth floor and it started shaking, dust came down from the ceiling, I ran down the stairs as fast as I could but the tremor stopped before i got very far.
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    Didn't they have an 8.1 like 2 weeks ago?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Covfefe the Strong View Post
    Didn't they have an 8.1 like 2 weeks ago?
    Yes. That was an 8.1 in Southern Mexico (offshore) close to the border with Guatemala. I have not read anything conclusive yet, but it looks like that earthquake occurred on the Middle America Trench, in the proximity where the Tehuantepec Ridge is subducted into the Middle America Trench. Not sure if that is significant.

    The epicenter of the new 7.1 is Puebla. Based on the location, my best guess is that it occurred on the Morelia-Acambay fault system.

    I don't think the two are related.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigma View Post
    Plenty of rubble to start building a wall.
    Wow, dank!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    That's awful, especially with so many dead. Were the buildings that collapsed not up to code?
    Its an old city with a lot of old buildings. Also, throughout the years, there had been a lot of illegal constructions. So very likely.

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    Such​ a painful movement for Mexicans

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    Mother nature just reminding people who really is in charge.

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