Posted on 09/19/2017 11:33:02 AM PDT by DCBryan1
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A powerful earthquake jolted Mexico City on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage to the capital. The extent of damage or injuries was not immediately clear, but people fled office buildings along the central Reforma Avenue. Mexico's seismological agency calculated its preliminary magnitude at 6.8 and said its center was east of the city in the state of Puebla. Pictures fell from walls and objects were shaken off of flat surfaces. Some people dove for cover under desks. Earlier in the day buildings across the city held preparation drills on the anniversary of the 1985 quake.
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Yep, very bad.
Ping.
We have around 30 million illegals, so sending them 11 million should be easy.
There was also a minor 3.8 earthquake this morning at 7:48am EDT...epicenter around Owensboro, KY and Evansville, IN area. I felt it and heard the BOOM here at my house (southern Indiana/greater Louisville area)...125 miles east of the Epicenter, Reports from as far west as St. Louis and east to Frankfort, KY saying they felt/heard it.
Global shaking.
I don’t believe this Southern Illinois fault is connected to the New Madrid fault. The epicenter of this quake and the larger one that occurred a few years ago is right across the Wabash River near Vincennes, Indiana.
375 earthquakes greater than 2.5 since Sept 1, 2017
No aftershock yet. When it comes it’s going to be a doozy.
Because...why?
Because I lived in Southern California for over 35 years, their culture is lying, theft, welfare, drugs, robbery, laziness, fraud, etc.
Don’t try telling me I am wrong, I had to sit there, shut up, and watch it happen.
Good neighborhoods (my own old neighborhood) turned into sh!t by meheekoos ILLEGAL ALIEN TRASH exported to the USA, with the collusion of meheekoos politicians as well as our own.
I hate them all, have sympathy for none of them, and that hatred was taught to me by MEXICANS, not white people.
Thanks for the ping, SE!
You are welcome. And thanks for the reply. Made me feel like I accomplished something today. All the Best!
Mexico City is NOT particularly vulnerable because it was build on TOP of Tenochtitlan. MC is vulnerable because it an Tenochtitlan were built on top of a lake bed.
I was in the July 28, 1957 quake which was 7 or 7.5?? I was walking home from a party with a friend about 1:30am. I started to stagger and said, “But I only had 2 drinks.” My friend from San Jose, CA, cried,”It’s an earthquake,” grabbed my hand and we ran to the intersection and stood in the middle of the street. Along the sidewalk were 3 story buildings, the telephone poles were swaying back and forth, the wires were slapping against each other, but otherwise it was very quiet. We held each other from falling and swayed and rotated from side to side like standing in a fast moving NYC subway train. It lasted over a minute. He walked me home and when I arrived all the 3’ high planters had fallen over in the hall. The maid was hiding in the dirty linen under the dining room table, the guy upstairs had been thrown out of bed, and one of the girls in the front room of my apartment had fled the room as it looked like a palm tree was going to fall into the 3rd floor window. She saw the living room chandelier swing hitting the ceiling on one side and then hitting the ceiling on the other side. The next day I walked all over taking photos. I still have them. The 20? story Goodyear? office building had broken windows and cracks running all over the surface. A friend who was downtown said the modern “little Empire State Bldg.” was swaying back and forth, and the whores were running out into the street screaming and praying. For days afterward especially if I was lying down I could feel aftershocks. The first link is three pages of news reports. The second link is a technical report. The third link is images, but most are from 1985 or this year. The damage shown is mostly too severe for 1957.
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1957/07/29/page/1/article/quake-in-maxico-kills-42
http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/vol.1_session5_359.pdf
I sent your map link to my daughter and her husband in Wyoming. They are in Evanston, WY which is about 175 miles south of Yellowstone. There have been a lot of small quakes around Yellowstone. As you know, if the Yellowstone caldera goes, it will be tragic.
Thanks again. Regards-
Heh... it’s also built in the crater of an old volcano, which had by the time of the Aztecs turned into a crater lake. It all depends, I think, on just why there are earthquakes happening — is the volcano not quite extinct? :^)
At the moment Mexico City has volcanoes on several sides, particularly Popocateptl and Ixtaxcihuatl. In my youth I climbed to within about 400 feet of the top of Popo which was almost 17,800 feet at the time. It had snowed the night before and there was sheet ice near the top and I and people I was with did not have ropes. We did have ice axes and crampons. So we decided to turn around. There had been snow from 11,000 to the top and although we had put on sunscreen, a lot of us burned under our noses and chins and I had badly burned lips. The next day at college when we went to the nurse, she said, “Oh, you went to Popo. A lot of Acapulco people are coming in too, but they are burned on the top of the nose.”
This link gives considerable detail on the 1985 quake. There was controversy over the death figure because the president waited a day and a half before reporting much. I suspect at least 10,000 with some suggesting as much as 35K or more. See figures under map to right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Mexico_City_earthquake
:^)
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