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[General Admin]

7.2 Magnitude (mind you it either goes up or goes down lol)

Located near Mexicali, Baja California aka Mexico

Felt from Baja to Los Angeles to Phoenix AZ, Las Vegas NV (basically the Southwestern United States (Cali, NV, Arizona)

Some minor damage in Southern California, not sure about where the quake is located.

More info:

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/ci14607652.php

www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story/Major-7-2-Earthquake-Rocks-San-Diego-and-Southern/9xFciod8t0S3_HvjOz7skA.cspx

[viktor]

Wow Mich - so Mexico is quite near California then? Because I thought Mexico was in the south LOL Or am I forgetting just how BIG each State in America is and Mexico is south of America but also south of California? But wow... that is so scary... I know they can cause a shit load of damage.

[General Admin]

Yes, California is quiet near Mexico. California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas used to be owned by Mexico. And our biggest states are: California, Alaska, Texas and Florida

We share the border on the Baja peninsula.

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And approx where the arrow I put for Baja California is where the epicenter was.

[wade]

I was watching something on the news/morning show, when it was announced as breaking news about the earthquake. That was after 8:30am this morning my time.

[brendan]

Those things scare the hell outta me, honestly!! So glad UK do not get anything like that, although I do believe we had a minor earthquake once... mum knows more about it than I do though.

[General Admin]

Well like I said in the cbox.

We get earthquakes and brush fires. LOL. Though we still haven't had the big one in sometime. They keep reminded us about it. Because of Haiti & Chile. And funny thing is where the earthquake was centered yesterday about 40 miles in California is where we are suppose to have the big one.

Salton Sea

Between Brawley and Salton Sea is where our "big one" is suppose to be.

On March 24, 2009, an LA Times article reported a series of earthquakes in the Salton Sea. The article also quoted prominent geophysicists and seismologists who discuss the potential for these small quakes to spawn a massive earthquake on the San Andreas fault.

Those last year didn't make world news as they were only slow. But anyways we haven't had a big Earthquake on the San Andreas fault. Or have we?


A study completed by Yuri Fialko has demonstrated that the San Andreas fault has been stressed to a level sufficient for the next "big one," as it is commonly called; that is, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or greater. The study also concluded that the risk of a large earthquake may be increasing faster than researchers had previously believed. Fialko also emphasized in his study that, while the San Andreas Fault had experienced massive earthquakes in 1857 at its central section and in 1906 at its northern segment (the 1906 San Francisco earthquake), the southern section of the fault has not seen a similar rupture in at least 300 years.

If such an earthquake were to occur, Fialko's study stated, it would result in substantial damage to Palm Springs and a number of other cities in San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial counties in California, and Mexicali municipality in Baja California. Such an event would be felt throughout much of Southern California, including densely populated areas of metropolitan Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Ensenada and Tijuana, Baja California.

"The information available suggests that the fault is ready for the next big earthquake but exactly when the triggering will happen and when the earthquake will occur we cannot tell," Fialko said. "It could be tomorrow or it could be 10 years or more from now," he concluded in September 2005.

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Perhaps yesterday was the Big One the researcher was referring too. It was on the San Andreas Fault, BUT the fault doesn't go into Nevada and Arizona. So the fault must have rubbed with another one....will bring more details later lol. Also we have a 3% chance of a 7.0 or greater aftershock within the next few days....

[brendan]

It really is kinda scary and crazy Mich...really am glad we don't have anything like that. There are a couple of fault lines though right? San Andreas fault line is the biggest one though I believe? And what exactly is it anyway? It's two pieces of ground which don't quite fit together and sometimes they rub against one another or something in the earth's inner crust or something? Which is why cracks can appear in roads and stuff?