Huge Earthquake in Mexico City

[clit_licker30]

A strong 7.6 earthquake just struck Mexico City. Heard it on Fox news.

No details yet.

 

[Chuckus]

*in his most sarcastic voice*

All that for some chocolate milk in Mexico City?????

 

[Weird Harold]

From: http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2084891

Earthquake Shakes Mexico City, Measures 7.6
Tue January 21, 2003 09:38 PM ET
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale rocked Mexico City on Tuesday night, the seismological service at Mexico City's UNAM University said.
It said the epicenter was in the Pacific state of Colima. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, but an earthquake of that strength is capable of causing major damage.

Reuter's is the only thing that Google's News search turned up (there are three stories on the Reuters wire, but all say basically the same thing.)

 

[clit_licker30]

All I have heard is telephones and lights are down. No injury reports as of yet.

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

7.6 is big enough to cause many deaths. I hope that it was centered outside the city and there's not a major health disaster.

 

[clit_licker30]

Fox News(LTGR's Fav) said the quake lasted over 20 seconds. This could be bad in such a densely populated area.



Edited:Because I can't spell worth a shit.

 

[fgarvb1]

Damn, as if they don't have it bad enough down there.

 

[Weird Harold]

7.6 is big enough to cause many deaths. I hope that it was centered outside the city and there's not a major health disaster.

The USGS has revised their calculation to Richter 7.8 and the AP/ABC is reporting 21 dead (most others are only reporting the 19 dead in in Colimo State.

The latest as of Midnight PST: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030122_165.html

...
Mexico's national seismological service put the quake's magnitude at 7.6. The agency said it struck at 8:07 p.m. in Colima, a small state which includes the port city of Manzanillo, roughly 300 miles west of Mexico City.

Butch Kinerney, a spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey, said scientists there calculated the magnitude at 7.8.

...

 

[Azwed]

With the gelogy around Mexico City though 7.8 is a real killer quake.

How many people died in the last Mexico City quake? I think it was in the thousands and that quake was a 6 something I think.

 

[Weird Harold]

With the gelogy around Mexico City though 7.8 is a real killer quake.

How many people died in the last Mexico City quake? I think it was in the thousands and that quake was a 6 something I think.

This was 300+ miles to the west of Mexico City -- It was felt in MC, but probably only at about a 3.5 to 4.0 intensity. There are no reports of damage or injury in MC, just in Colima and Jalisco States on the west coast.

 

[Azwed]

This was 300+ miles to the west of Mexico City -- It was felt in MC, but probably only at about a 3.5 to 4.0 intensity. There are no reports of damage or injury in MC, just in Colima and Jalisco States on the west coast.

Ah ok did not know that. The last quake was either right in the city or just outside.

 

[Viper Vic]

Update On The Quake

A short report on the quake.( Reuters)
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"FRIGHT IN MEXICO CITY

The quake rocked homes and offices in Mexico City, 310 miles to the east, where power was briefly cut and buildings cracked.

Still, the shaking earth brought back terrifying memories of a 1985 quake of 8.1 in Mexico City that killed more than 10,000 people.

"I was putting my kid to bed when everything started to move. We ran out with all our neighbors. I was just thinking of '85, the earthquake of '85," said Beatriz Reyes, a resident of the central Mexico City neighborhood of La Roma, which was one of the hardest hit in 1985.

On Mexico City's central boulevard, Reforma, two twenty-story buildings, the Sevilla Palace Hotel and a government building, bumped together during the quake, said witnesses who briefly evacuated both buildings.

But the city dodged a bullet, with only a few dozen people treated for shock."