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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 09:51 PM


Any problems on highway 1????



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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 09:53 PM


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Felt it pretty good in Palm Desert. There was about 10-15 seconds of shaking followed by a minute or more of rolling. It felt like being in a boat on a gentle sea. Didn't feel any of the aftershocks, though.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/sc/shake/146...
Big rolling wave movements in Rosarito. Was surprised how sustained it was. Not really a violent shaking- a mushy wave. The parked cars out front bounced like a low-rider show.




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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 09:59 PM
This looks like fairly new construction


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I think I'd have a heart-to-heart talk with my contractor. :rolleyes:




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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 10:18 PM
7.2-magnitude quake blamed in Baja death


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By Debbi Baker
April 4, 2010

Emergency officials, businesses and residents on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border were regaining their mental and physical footing after a 7.2 earthquake shook the region Sunday afternoon.

The temblor, which struck about 3:40 p.m., was centered 16 miles southwest of Guadalupe Victoria in Baja, Mexico, and about 104 miles east southeast of Tijuana, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Its depth was reported at 6.2 miles.

A civil protection official in Baja California told The Associated Press that the earthquake killed one man whose home collapsed.

Baja California state Civil Protection Director Alfredo Escobedo says the man's home collapsed just outside Mexicali, close to the epicenter of the quake. Escobedo says there were reports of more people trapped in homes in Mexicali and rescue teams with dogs and digging equipment are rushing to the city from nearby Tijuana.

Residents across San Diego County reported feeling shaking that by most accounts seemed to last one to two minutes. Televised reports said the shaking was felt in California, Nevada and Arizona.

Emergency-response officials in Mexico said Tijuana escaped serious damage. They cited just one notable incident so far: A tree collapsed and damaged a water tank in the city.

About 100 firefighters have been deployed to survey buildings, bridges and other structures throughout Tijuana. They haven’t seen anything significant, said the director of Tijuana’s fire department.

Mexicali was hit harder.

Water and power there were shut off for about two hours. Numerous injuries were reported, but authorities said they haven’t been able to get a precise breakdown because they were still overwhelmed with emergency calls.

The biggest hospital in Mexicali is moving patients to other facilities because of structural damage.

Jerry Esqueda, a captain with the Salvation Army in El Centro, injured his arm when he fell as the quake struck. Books slid off shelves and a flower vase fell off a piano at his Imperial home.

“The whole house started shaking. You couldn’t get balance,” Esqueda said. “I started falling through the open door. I landed on my left arm and then my knees.”

Esqueda and his wife, Vicky, also a Salvation Army captain, drove to the El Centro Medical Center. He said broken light posts were hanging over the street and cement walls had tumbled down.

“Everything that could fall over seems to have fallen and broken,” Vicky Esqueda said.

So many people were at the hospital that the Esquedas arranged to send a Salvation Army canteen truck there with water, sandwiches and cookies for patients and staff members.

Jerry Esqueda said the Salvation Army is helping one woman whose apartment was severely damaged.

“It’s not safe for her and the kids to be in, so we’re setting them up in a hotel,” he said.

....Aftershocks continue to happen around the epicenter of Sunday’s quake, including one that measured 5.4.

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A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rumbled through most of Southern California and Baja California this afternoon, followed by a series of aftershocks, according to early reports from the U.S. Geological Survey.

The biggest temblor hit at 3:40 p.m., its epicenter estimated to be 108 miles east-southeast of Tijuana in Mexico. The rupture occurred 6.2 miles deep.

It was preceded by a magnitude 3.3 quake that occurred at 3:34 p.m., the epicenter in the same area but at a considerably shallower depth of less than one mile.

At least eight aftershocks have followed:

• At 3:44 p.m., a magnitude-2.3 quake occurred 100 miles east of Tijuana. The estimated depth was 19 miles.

• At 4:09 p.m., a magnitude-4.5 quake occurred 62 miles east of Tijuana. Estimated depth: Slightly more than one mile.

• At 4:15 p.m., a magnitude-5.1 quake hit 86 miles east-southeast of Tijuana. Estimated depth: 10.5 miles.

• At 4:19 p.m., a magnitude-3.8 quake struck 43 miles east-northeast of Tijuana. Estimated depth; Less than one mile.

• At 4:22 p.m., a magnitude-3.6 quake rumbled 45 miles northeast of San Diego and just 10 miles southwest of Borrego Springs. Estimated depth: 4.3 miles.

• At 4:34 p.m., a magnitude-4.7 quake hit 85 miles east of Tijuana. Estimated depth: Less than one mile.

• At 4:46 p.m., a magnitude-3.5 quake struck 72 miles east of Tijuana, 16 miles west-southwest of El Centro in Imperial County. Estimated depth: 2.2 miles.

• At 4:48 p.m., a magnitude-3.4 quake occurred 98 miles east of Tijuana, 9 miles east-southeast of Brawley in Imperial County. Estimated depth: 13.4 miles.
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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 10:22 PM
Two killed, 100 injured in Mexican earthquake


http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/04/mexico.earthqua...

April 5, 2010

(CNN) -- A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck northwest Mexico's Baja California on Sunday, rattling Arizona and southern California, and leaving at least two dead and 100 injured in Mexico, authorities said.

At least one person was killed in a building collapse in Mexicali, Mexico, according to the assistant director of civil protection in Tijuana. The other victim died when he ran from his residence into the street and was hit by a car, said Alfredo Escobedo, Mexico's director of civil protection.

All 100 injuries are concentrated in Mexicali, Escobedo said.

The quake struck at 3:40 p.m. (6:40 p.m. ET) about 110 miles east-southeast of Tijuana, Mexico, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Pictures from Mexicali, a major metropolitan area and the capital of Mexico's Baja California state, showed sides ripped off buildings, telephone poles toppled, roads cracked and supermarket aisles strewn with food that had fallen off shelves.

The entire city has lost power, according to Alan Sandoval, Tijuana's assistant director of civil protection.

The quake was the largest in the Baja California area since 1992, the USGS reported.

According to USGS seismologist Lucy Jones Sunday's quake also could trigger others in the coming days, though she said the relatively quiet hours after Sunday's quake make other big quakes less likely.

There have been three large aftershocks so far, including one that registered a 5.5 magnitude, and other smaller temblors, USGS said.

Nine minutes after the Mexico quake, a magnitude 4.1 quake rattled windows in Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco. No damage was reported there, and Susan Potter, a USGS geophysicist, told CNN that was a separate quake from the one that struck in the Baja California desert.

The USGS initially reported that the Baja California quake had a 6.9 magnitude. The USGS upgraded the quake about an hour later.




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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 10:24 PM
Big Baja Quake Came From Chaotic Fault System


http://cbs2.com/wireapnewsca/Seismologists.say.big.2.1611323...

Apr 4, 2010
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Scientists say the strong earthquake that rocked Baja California probably occurred on a fault that hadn't ruptured in over a century.

Preliminary data suggest Sunday's 7.2-magnitude quake occurred on the Laguna Salada fault, which last broke in 1892 and unleashed a magnitude-7.2.

In recent days, Baja California's wine-growing region west of the epicenter has been rattled by small quakes between magnitudes 3 and 4.

Whether they were foreshocks to Sunday's quake is not yet known.

U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Erik Pounders describes the area as a "chaotic" system of faults that needs more research.




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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 10:37 PM
earthquake disrupts air traffic control


When the first earthquake hit at 3:45 pm today we were at 8500 ft and about 75 miles south of TJ. We had no idea at that time an earthquake just happened We tried to contact TJ approach control as usual but no answer. I was wondering if they were having a very long Easter break so after calling repeatedly and getting too close to the airport, I decided to get SoCal approach on the US side. Even they didn't tell us an earthquake happened so we just kept descending while carefully looking for the bigger birds coming into TJ.

Finally landed Brown Field and then was told about the earthquake.

Boy did we luck out this time going by air, as some of our friends are still stuck south of Mexicali. The border wait times must be very long!:no:
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0405/Baja-earthquake-Power...

By Gina Germani
April 5, 2010

In the desert cities of the region on both sides of the US-Mexico border, the 3:40 p.m. quake knocked buildings off foundations, threw chunks of façades into the streets, and shut down electric, Internet, and cell phone services. Furniture inside homes and businesses was upended. More than 30 aftershocks rattled the area as of 8:30 p.m., sending people into protective crouches or running outdoors.

The earthquake's epicenter was in Guadalupe Victoria, Mexico, 22 miles from the sprawling Baja state capital of Mexicali, Mexico.

In Mexicali, a poor city of 760,000, the Cronica news website reported two deaths and that the Mexicali-Tijuana highway, a key link to the west, was impassible in at least one spot where a bridge had collapsed.

The Imperial County Emergency Operations Center "has been in contact with officials from Mexicali and are assisting in their requests for mutual aid," Ms. Carillo says. "Initial reports from Mexicali indicate widespread power and water outages and structural damage to some buildings."

The busy US-Mexican port of entry between Mexicali and Calexico, Calif., was closed because it "has major cracks in the plaster falling from walls and ceilings," says Victor Brabble, a spokesman for the El Centro Sector Border Patrol. Power was also knocked out to the port of entry.

Mr. Brabble does not know when the port will reopen. In the meantime, the Border Patrol is helping to maintain law and order, he says. "The Border Patrol is assisting its community partners in Calexico by keeping pedestrians away from damaged property to prevent looting or vandalism," he adds.

Alejandra Gastelum, a resident of Calexico, said she was returning from a visit with her grandmother in the Rio Culiacan district of Mexicali, about five miles south of the border, when the quake hit. "The power lines, which are everywhere in Mexicali, they were crashing against the buildings and falling all over the place. Windows were breaking everywhere," she said.

“If we hadn't been holding onto the wall, we'd have been knocked off our feet,” said Terri Peri, a Mahwah, N.J., accountant visiting her home town of El Centro, Calif., 30 miles from the epicenter.

She grew up in this agricultural area, which has frequent earthquakes, and said she was with her boys at a Holiday Inn Express when the rolling started. “At first I thought, ‘Yea! The kids are experiencing their first quake,' and then lamps were falling, glass was shattering, and the TV fell over,” she said.

Many gas stations in this area were closed as a safety precaution. Ruben Anaya, the manager of a Shell gasoline station in El Centro, said he closed his fueling stations following the earthquake. "If you don't shut it down, you don't know if they'll crack and start leaking through into the soil, or, well, cause an explosion."

At the few that did remain open, long lines of cars formed, many of them recreational vehicles of tourists who come to the area during holidays like Easter for off-road desert racing.




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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 11:05 PM


I was west of El Centro near an electric substation. Hard to stand and walk. Substation was really rocking and rolling. I will post a picture or two of all the dust coming off the mountains northeast of the Laguna Salada (El Centinela) tomorrow after I upload them.

Not many places open in El Centro, lots of signals out, and some damage to bridges east of El Centro. We were lucky to get a hotel tonight. Lots and lots of aftershocks.




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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 11:17 PM


Please post any road information. We are supposed to head down to San Felipe in AM. Thank you.
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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 11:48 PM


S2B- I'd delay departure till you hear an all clear. Likely to be road closures or detours needed. Parts of the road along the Saladana are on fill on deep wet soil w/possibility of liquifaction. If that happened, could take a coupla days to get the road rebuilt.

should be good info by morning. Mike




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[*] posted on 4-4-2010 at 11:58 PM


Yeah that's the plan. We were going to leave Fallbrook at 0400. Decided to get up at 0500, check all the info and make a decision. Mexicali will be a mess tomorrow and the closer you get to La Ventana, the poblados will be in dire straits. Although we're in a caravan, the citizens might not be too civil come return time on Friday and understandable so.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fg-quake5-2010apr05,0,4...

By Tony Perry and Tracy Wilkinson
April 4, 2010

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked Mexico's Baja California peninsula Sunday, jolting millions of people from Los Angeles and San Diego to Phoenix and scattering destruction along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Emergency services in both the U.S. and Mexico scrambled to assess the extent of casualties and damage, including fallen buildings, buckled roads, cracked water canals, fires and telephone and electrical outages. It appeared that most of the damage was in the twin border cities of Calexico, Calif., and Mexicali, Mexico, where at least one person was reported killed and several injured.

Witnesses on both sides of the border reported feeling a strong, rolling series of shakes that unleashed panic in a dozen or more towns and cities. Families in the middle of Easter lunches were sent running for cover.

"It's really ugly here," Olga Jimenez, 29, a water-company worker in Mexicali, said by telephone as her house continued to shake around her and ambulance and police sirens wailed in the background. "We felt a really big shake. The walls on houses fell down and people were running in the streets screaming."

A new four-story parking garage at Mexicali's state government headquarters partly collapsed, along with part of the city's courthouse, residents said. Patients were evacuated from the main hospital for fear of structural damage.

At least one person was killed in Mexicali by falling debris, Alfredo Escobedo, head of local emergency services, told reporters.

Miguel Coronado, 48, who was in Mexicali with half a dozen relatives visiting family for Easter, said the quake "shook so strong that some people fell down. Some people got hysterical, and others started praying."

On Sunday night he joined a flood of people walking over the border from Mexicali into Calexico, after the crossing was closed to northbound vehicular traffic. People streamed across carrying babies, lugging laundry bags and pushing suitcases and elderly relatives in wheelchairs.

"It's a disaster over there," said Nayeli Ramirez, 17, after crossing into Calexico. "Buildings are tipped up. Cars are smashed. It's horrible. Everyone is running."

In Calexico's older central district, windows were broken and goods had tumbled off store shelves. Glass and plaster were everywhere. By Sunday evening, some merchants were already sweeping up as inspectors red-tagged buildings to keep people out until damage surveys could be completed.

"Calexico has suffered a devastating hit," said City Manager Victor Carrillo. "Our downtown is shut down, and people everywhere are afraid."

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude of the quake at 7.2 -- equal to the force that devastated the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince in January. It hit about 3:40 p.m. local time, lasted about 35 seconds and was followed 16 minutes later by a magnitude 3.9 shaker near Borrego Springs, Calif., and, separately, a magnitude 4.1 temblor six miles southwest of Malibu in the Pacific Ocean.

It was the third major quake in the Western Hemisphere in the last three months: In addition to the Haiti disaster, in which more than 200,000 people were killed, central and southern Chile were hit by one of the most powerful seismic events in history when an 8.8 quake struck on Feb. 27, killing about 700 people.

The epicenter of Sunday's main quake was near the Mexican town of Guadalupe Victoria, a wine-producing region about 30 miles south of Mexicali-Calexico and 220 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Bridges collapsed around the town and concrete irrigation canals were badly damaged. At about six miles underground, it was a relatively shallow quake, which enhances the potential for devastation.

In Mexicali, Calexico and even parts of San Diego County, electrical power failed, water was cut and gas leaks were reported. The Mexican federal electrical company said transmission lines from Tijuana, the Rosarito substation and the lines that connect Baja California to Imperial Valley, Calif., were all affected.

Electricity and water delivery are now functioning in Calexico and elsewhere in Imperial County. But Mexicali is still without electricity or water delivery.

In Los Angeles, seismologist Lucy Jones of the USGS said the fault involved in Sunday's quake was probably the Laguna Salada, which is about 43 miles long and straddles the California-Mexico border. A magnitude 8.2 quake occurred on the same fault in 1890, Jones said, centered in a location north of Sunday's temblor. Geologists will need to physically observe the fault before making a definitive determination of the quake's origin, she added.

The quake moved from the southeast toward the northwest, explaining why Southern California felt it so strongly.

Occurring at the junction between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates that grind against each other in California and Baja California, the quake occurred on a strike-slip fault, which splices vertically through the Earth's crust causing the surface land to move horizontally.

The area has been seismically active for the last year, and there were several foreshocks that occurred beginning last Wednesday, with magnitudes of 3 and 4, Jones said.

"This area is a very active area. There have been swarms at many times," Jones said.

No significant damage or injuries were reported in Los Angeles. The L.A. Fire Department said it saw a slight increase in 911 calls mostly associated with automatic alarms and stuck elevators. LAFD and San Diego authorities reported that their checks of highways, overpasses and other infrastructure revealed no damage.

Still, the shaking in Los Angeles lasted a disconcertingly long time.

"When it first started, it felt like I was on a roller coaster," said Jennifer Hayne, 59, of Hemet. "It slowed down, then it picked up even faster for about a minute."

In Orange County, rides at both Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm were shut down briefly for inspection.

Two major power outages were reported in the San Clemente region and Borrego Springs, leaving thousands of customers in the dark for several hours, said Jennifer Ramp, a spokeswoman for San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

In El Centro, Calif., extensive damage was reported, including multiple gas leaks, water main breaks and collapsed chimneys and balconies, said Fire Capt. Chad Whitlock. Several mobile homes were knocked off their foundations and were without water and power.

In Imperial County, Imperial Irrigation District officials report no major damage to the complex All-American Canal system that provides water to residential users and farmers in one of the major food-producing areas of the U.S. Minor damage was reported to some laterals and gates but IID crews worked through the night on repairs so that delivery was not interrupted.

By far, it seemed the Mexican side of the border was hardest hit, suffering what Jones said was the strongest quake to hit the region in 18 years.

At the Playa Club Hotel in San Felipe, a popular vacation destination for American travelers, workers and guests were alarmed but quickly recovered. No damage was reported in the town, but Internet and cellular telephone communications were interrupted.

Tijuana, on the western side of the peninsula across from the epicenter, appeared to have escaped damage, but the road between it and Mexicali was damaged, the Mexican Interior Ministry said.

In Ensenada, some buildings were evacuated as a precaution, the fire department said.

At Mexicali's main hospital, windows were shattered, floors and walls cracked. Patients were evacuated from the seven-story building onto the hospital grounds, where they were gathered under a large plastic awning.

At a makeshift maternity ward on the hospital grounds, obstetrician Dr. Cesar Martinez said nine babies had been born since the quake struck, two more women were in the final stages of delivery and more women in labor were arriving.

"The shaking made the babies drop and the mothers to go into labor," Martinez said. "We never have this many on a Sunday afternoon."

No quake-related injuries had appeared, but the trauma was settling in.

"It shook so hard," 16-year-old Kassandra Ornelas said, "we thought the Earth was going to open up."




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[*] posted on 4-5-2010 at 05:29 AM


Good morning all...any updated road reports?
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[*] posted on 4-5-2010 at 05:39 AM


I'm going to make some phone calls starting about 7:00am. I am too looking for news on the road.
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[*] posted on 4-5-2010 at 05:46 AM


I just checked the border crossing wait times and the East Calexico crossing has eight lanes open for passenger vehicles with a five minute wait (as of 0500). The West crossing is closed to vehicles.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0405/Mexicali-e...

By Sara Miller Llana
April 5, 2010

The 7.2 Mexicali earthquake that struck northern Mexico and rocked swaths of the American southwest Sunday was the region's most powerful in decades, but damage was limited in part because the temblor had a shallow depth of only six miles.

Still, the quake frayed nerves in the wake of tragedies in Haiti and Chile.

“One way or another, we have the disasters in Chile and Haiti in the back of our heads. There is a fear that it could happen to us at any moment,” says Antonio Fernandez, the manager of Hotel Mexico in Mexicali, in a phone interview. “It seemed that the earth would never stop shaking, and the aftershocks are constant.”

The earthquake struck at 3:40 p.m. on Easter Sunday, some 38 miles from Mexicali, in Baja California, and 104 miles from Tijuana, and was felt throughout Southern California.

One man was reported dead outside Mexicali, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, when his house collapsed around him, said Alfredo Escobedo, director of emergency services in Baja California.

Local newspapers published photos of roadways cracked in half. A photograph sent via Twitter showed the second level of a two-story house collapsed over its garage in Mexicali.

The extent of damage was still unknown. On Sunday evening electricity was still out in much of the state of Baja California. In Mexicali, phone lines were down. It was impossible to get in touch with many establishments late Sunday night. Other phone conversations were quickly ended after lines cut out.

“It was terrible, it was so strong, one of the strongest I’ve felt,” says Ramon Fregoso, a resident of Mexicali, which has about one million residents, in a telephone interview.

Officials reported that many residents in the city were still trapped in their homes from a quake that is the worst to have hit the area in several years. A state of emergency has been declared in Baja California, and teams from Tijuana were en route to Mexicali Sunday night to aid in rescue efforts.

Mr. Fregoso, who was in his house when the earthquake struck during Easter Sunday, says he ran to the ground floor of his house and outside with his family. A few objects fell and walls cracked in his home, he says, but he did not see extensive damage.

Fregoso says he has not heard from all his family members since communication was down, and he was following the news of the earthquake through the radio in his car, since electricity was out.

Mr. Fernandez says that his hotel suffered only slight damages, but they are out of water and light.

Still, the psychological toll is high, not only with recent tragedies in the Latin America still fresh but because of the widespread belief that this region of the US and Mexico could face the “big one” at any moment.

“We are trying to remain calm,” he says. “But this is definitely the worst quake I have ever felt in my life.”




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[*] posted on 4-5-2010 at 06:06 AM
Mexico Earthquake Could Trigger More Powerful Shaking


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By MIKE VON FREMD and SARAH NETTER
April 5, 2010

"Don't be surprised if you feel something in the next few days," said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones. "We need to remember that every earthquake we have has the possibility of triggering another earthquake."

Aftershocks began shortly after the earthquake, including a powerful tremor early this morning.

The 7.2 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the region in decades, felt more than 300 miles away in Las Vegas.

"It was probably felt by at least 20 million people at this point," Jones said.

Two people were killed in Mexico and several were injured, many of them hit by falling objects, according to The Associated Press.

It struck at 3:40 p.m. in Baja California, Mexico. The most severe damage is south of the border in Mexicali, 19 miles from the epicenter.

"We were just looking around and things were just falling off the shelves," Elvira Lopez said not long after the earthquake hit while she was shopping. "Everything was on the ground, people were screaming."

In the U.S., law enforcement officers guarded businesses in Calexico, Calif., the hardest hit area north of the border. Police said many of the damaged buildings were built in the 1930s and 1940s and never retrofitted to withstand strong earthquakes, according to ABC's Los Angeles affiliate KABC.

Calexico Fire Chief Peter Mercado told KABC that short-circuited electrical wires sprouted fires around the city. He reported about two dozen injuries, mostly minor, as a result of the earthquake, though some suffered broken limbs in building collapses.

In Tijuana, power lines came down and roadways cracked, leaving people feeling unsafe inside buildings.

Carla Navarro quickly came to the border to bring supplies to her family in Mexico.

"We took some water and food for them because there's no store open, everything's closed," she said. "No water, no electricity."

But the damage was nowhere near as bad as it could have been. By comparison, the 1994 Northridge quake was magnitude 6.7 and the Bay area's damaging 1989 Loma Prieta quake was magnitude 7.1.




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[*] posted on 4-5-2010 at 06:10 AM


CNN just did a live report from Mexicali. As of 0600, they had no power but most roads were open. For those of us that want to get to or leave San Felipe the Hwy 5 road report is goinf to be the big news.
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[*] posted on 4-5-2010 at 06:10 AM
Early-morning aftershock


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-naw-baja-e...

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Residents of Calexico in the Imperial Valley were jolted awake as a 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck at 4.12 a.m. Monday.

Lights flickered and some light poles swayed as the aftershock struck the California border town. There were no immediate reports of injuries or property damage.

The quake was centered about 34 miles south-southwest of Calexico, according to the U.S . Geological Survey.

At the Best Western motel, patrons said it felt as if a large truck had backed into the outside wall, shaking furniture inside the rooms.

Calexico suffered significant damage in its aging downtown in Sunday's 7.2-magnitude quake, and many merchants were waiting until sunrise to clean up broken glass and plaster. Calexico police and border patrol agents remained on duty all night to prevent looting and a possible surge of illegal immigrants through the border checkpoint.

On the Mexican side of the border, Mexicali, a sprawling city of more than 1 million residents, remained without power or water delivery after Sunday's quake. The city's seven-story general hospital was evacuated because of damage.

[Edited on 4-5-2010 by BajaNews]




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