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bigworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 02:14 PM
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Series of earthquakes hit Baja California (5.8 / 6.9 / 5.0 / 5.9)
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

Workers in downtown San Diego felt buildings sway after several earthquakes hit in Baja California this morning.

The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 5.8 quake struck at 10:55 a.m. and a 6.9 quake struck at 10:59 p.m. The first was centered about 343 miles southeast of TIjuana and the second was 331 miles southeast of Tijuana, both in the Gulf of Mexico.

A 5.0 quake hit the same area at 11:33 a.m., and 5.9 magnitude quake was felt at 11:40 a.m.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injury.

Read more: http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/breaking/2009/08/earthquake_in_mexico_felt_in_s.html
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 02:39 PM
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1. If it was in the Gulf of Mexico, it was nowhere near Baja.
Try Gulf of California. That IS what is in the blog.
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 02:53 PM
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2. Your tax dollars and NCLB at work.
It's not as if the best among us has ever sacrificed precision by writing too hastily. :sarcasm:
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bigworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 03:12 PM
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5. USGS map here
Edited on Mon Aug-03-09 03:15 PM by bigworld
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/245_30.php
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Grinchie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 03:16 PM
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6. The American Mastery of Geography on Display once again.
They would have been better off using the Sea of Cortez, but I guess that's Politically incorrect.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 02:55 PM
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3. Holy shit -- that is a California's nightmare!
When a quake hits, you stand there wondering if that is "it" or just a starter. :scared: We were always taught what we thought was the quake might just be a foreshock to the real quake to come. Three biq quakes in a row -- shit, that must have beem scary as hell. :cry:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 04:10 PM
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10. That's the worst part. You never know when it's over.
:(
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 03:05 PM
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4. Baja is the land of Queen Calafia too. What is in store?
Is there an island being pulled away or one bashing into the continent, slowly but surely?

Stay tuned folks.
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Joanie Baloney Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 03:19 PM
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7. Didn't feel any of them
Was working in Mission Valley in San Diego at the time. Not a sign of shaking during that time frame here. :)

-JB
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 03:22 PM
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8. Same here
live in North Park work in South Park.
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Joanie Baloney Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 05:10 PM
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12. Well, hi neighbor!
I live in North Park too. On Utah St....anywhere close to you?

:)
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 09:15 PM
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28. I live very very close to you
I'm on Utah and Coply (by Our Lady of Peace)
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 03:46 PM
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9. I've never heard of 4
moderate and high magnitude quakes happening so close together. Scary stuff - and so close to the So Cal area.
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 04:33 PM
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11. Tax revenues falling, massive State debt already piled up...
If the San Andreas lets rip, California is in deep shit.
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 08:43 PM
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23. Actually, if the San Andreas were to really let rip
it would be the end of California's shit. Deep or otherwise.
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nikto Donating Member (414 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 05:46 PM
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13. CHECK THIS MAP!
Quakes appear to be on the southern extension of San Andreas fault zone.

See map:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/27.37.-120.-110.php

Looks like it will increase pressure on a segment of the San Andreas fault
that has been described by several renowned seimologists as being
"ten months pregnant", already.

From now on, watch the Salton Sea/Imperial Valley fault zone area CLOSELY.:popcorn:



(I live in SoCal)
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 06:58 PM
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14. Wow I didn't realize these quakes were closer to Tucson than San Diego.
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 11:49 AM
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27. That's the East Pacific Rise, not the San Andreas. n/t
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kitty1 Donating Member (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 07:14 PM
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15. quake 6.0 mag off Baja
Source: AlertNet

A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Baja California in northwestern Mexico on Monday, shaking buildings as far away as San Diego, California, and raising fears of a small tsunami

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03528903.htm
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 07:14 PM
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16. Wow!
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 07:14 PM
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17. I felt it and the aftershocks...
In Downtown Los Angeles.
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jannyk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 07:14 PM
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18. Here's a discussion re quake from Baja Nomads
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=40529

Apparently it was directly off Bahia de los Angeles (where we have a 5th wheel parked beachfront at Camp Gecko). 4+ Quakes of 5+ and then the big one - 6.9.

Have been in contact with friends in Bahia, and they say lots (and lots) of shaking but so far no one knows of any bad damage. We've got someone going to check on our rig (which should be fine) and the concrete pillars than hold up the palapa (those I'm worried about more).
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 07:14 PM
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19. rv park in Wells NV that had 6.0
last year were only structures not harmed... they just thought it was the wind blowing again... entire downtown was devastated
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 07:14 PM
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22. I love LA Bay. I have friends at Gecko that I stay with.
I have a house on the Pacific Side, south of San Quintin.

Hope it's still standing.
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jannyk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 10:33 PM
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24. Who do you stay with @ Gecko???

We know most of our fellow Geckitos - a real cool bunch of folks.
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haele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 07:14 PM
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20. What's worrisome is that there were four 5+ mag quakes in one hour
In a 100 sqmile area. Hopefully, this means that there's stress coming off that fault line. And hopefully, this won't add stress to the San Andreas...

Haele
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 07:14 PM
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21. It will probably put more stress on the segment Southern California worries most about
Imperial County to the San Bernardino Mountains.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 09:55 AM
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25. Felt here in downtown Phoenix. Some people fled tall office buildings.
I didn't feel it myself, only saw it on the news.
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Torn_Scorned_Ignored Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 10:40 AM
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26. The only Quakes in the World yesterday
and today, so far.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
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