http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-m...919-story.html
It looks pretty bad, a bunch of building collapses and partial collapses reported.
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-m...919-story.html
It looks pretty bad, a bunch of building collapses and partial collapses reported.
Most people would rather die than think, and most people do. -Bertrand Russell
Before the camps, I regarded the existence of nationality as something that shouldn’t be noticed - nationality did not really exist, only humanity. But in the camps one learns: if you belong to a successful nation you are protected and you survive. If you are part of universal humanity - too bad for you -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
Wow again?
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
7.1 in Mexico ? Please bitch, we've got 7.3 in Azeroth.
Plenty of rubble to start building a wall.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Exactly 30 years to the day of another massive earthquake to hit the same spot.
Very very sad. Prayers for the victims
Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam
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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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
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.
Such a painful movement for Mexicans
Mother nature just reminding people who really is in charge.