Posted on 03/20/2012 11:23:35 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 18:02:53 UTC Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 12:02:53 PM at epicenter
Location 17.041°N, 98.115°W Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program Region GUERRERO, MEXICO
(Excerpt) Read more at earthquake.usgs.gov ...
Wow! It’s off their scale!!
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Well, a 7.9 could certainly be catastrophic according to where it’s centered.
We could use one centered in Washington DC. :-)
Have no idea about the geology of the area where Malia is staying.
Has been dropped to a 7.6 now.
Prayers up.
Quake distance: 162 km (101 miles) WSW (255°) from Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Yes Oaxaca is close by. The most distressing thing about the First Daughter story is that I am sure the Secret Service strongly advised against the trip. Malia probably pouted and Michelle told them to do it even if it put a big target on those agents and her classmates. I would not want to be in a third world country like Mexico for during a big earthquake like this.
Yes Oaxaca is close by. The most distressing thing about the First Daughter story is that I am sure the Secret Service strongly advised against the trip. Malia probably pouted and Michelle told them to do it even if it put a big target on those agents and her classmates. I would not want to be in a third world country like Mexico for during a big earthquake like this.
It was lowered but I would bet it’s raised again towards 8.
Good news from twitter, no damage reports yet.
They need to break the first daughter out now. Way to much shyte will be happening anywhere near the epicenter.
Lord protect her and her bodyguards as well as the people of Mexico.
While it is fun to chuckle at those dolts, this quake is close enough to Baja to have put some real pressure on the San Andreas.
USGS says Oaxaca .... that’s where they are.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0008m6h.html
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.
http://www.webcams.travel/webcam/1205010182-Weather-Puerto-Escondido-Puerto-Escondido
Surfs up...
Lots of unreinforced cinder block structures down there so this will be awful.
(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.)
INTERESTING.
Within the predicted timeline from an ATS predictor.
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