Holy Shit 7.1 quake in Central Mexico - 70 plus miles from Mexico City

[malaise]

Bangs head

[B2G]

1. Anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake too. nt

[hlthe2b]

3. that one (1985) was an 8.1-- devastating

[Achilleaze]

7. The final day of the Lunar cycle that began with the Great North American Eclipse

at the New Moon on August 21. What a month it's been for North America.

[B2G]

4. I believe there has just been one.

I've seen different intensities, but that's pretty common as they review the data.

[Brother Buzz]

5. That trumps Los Angles' 3.6 earthquake today

The only thing of notoriety about LA's earthquake was that is was on a fault that is know for releasing energy fast. Bam, and it was over.

[malaise]

9. We had one on Sunday night 4.2

but we slept through it and given the Cat5 hurricanes, it wasn't worth mentioning.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20170918/42-mag-earthquake-rattles-4-parishes

Did you see that building collapse in Mexico (on CNN)!

[Warpy]

11. If it's the one on YouTube, the exterior fell off and a couple of balconies went down

but the building is still standing, most of it.

This one is of a trip down a canal that usually has nary s ripple in the water.

[malaise]

20. Not that one

A complete building. The Mayor of Mexico City said he has reports that 20 buildings collapsed

[Warpy]

23. Yes, and it's not the only one, apparently, just one of the bigger ones.

I saw 8 areas of rising dust on a panorama shot of part of Mexico City. That means 8 buildings in that shot have been damaged or destroyed and it didn't include the whole city.

Twice in two weeks. Hard to believe. Then again, Puerto Rico and Cuba are facing a Cat 5 hurricane for the second time in 2 weeks.

Hard to keep up when things are happening this quickly.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I was watching CNN and the dust and smoke in the air is a really bad sign.

I can never sleep and always have the TV on in the background. I saw the tsunamis in Japan and the earthquake in Haiti when they were first being reported. The atmosphere in the video footage is always a good barometer of the actual devistation on the ground. This one is not good! Mexico city is pretty modern but is does not have the infrastructure and building codes that Japan does.

[malaise]

10. They just showed an entire building collapsing into dust

Damn!

[BigmanPigman]

12. They should show this to the people who live in OK where their earthquakes

due to fracking are now more numerous and stronger than in CA where I live (earthquake backpack, etc in closet and plan is ready to leave ASAP). I had to do this with my first grade classroom all the time, as well as lone gunman drills...teaching is scary these days! There was an earthquake one day after the kids went home, thank God, and it was a huge BOOM like a 4 million ton boulder dropped suddenly on the roof of my classroom. Each earthquake is different and felt differently depending on which type of building you are in.

[Rollo]

14. Don't forget the 1800's New Madrid quake...

That rang bells in Boston and changed the course of the Mississippi... the lower Midwest is overdue for a repeat...

[BigmanPigman]

16. Oh, I am well aware of that one too and showed photos to my students

as part of a lesson.

[moriah]

26. I was a kid when they predicted a big one on the New Madrid.

We all had to bring bottled water to school, etc.

A lot of my state, and the nuclear plant in it, should have some buffer against the liquefaction potential because of the Ouachitas and the Ozarks whenever it goes through its next seismic cycle. But not where I live.

[SaintLouisBlues]

8. Buildings have collapsed in Mexico City

People are digging by hand trying to rescue those trapped.

[malaise]

22. Horrific

[Rollo]

13. 7.1 is a dangerous quake

Remember, the 1989 Loma Prieta (Bay Bridge World Series) quake was "only" a 7.1. But it managed to cause billions in damage, over 60 deaths, the collapse of a freeway, etc. And this was in an area with more stringent building standards and more resilient construction than old Mexico.

I expect we will see more reports of damage and deaths from this MC quake.

And as a California resident, I'm wondering if this recent spate of quake activity foreshadows something bigger here up north. I read a report a while back that major quakes in one area can have seismic effects across the globe.

We'll see.

[B2G]

18. I was 30 miles from the epicenter for that one.

It was terrifying.

[Rollo]

24. I was about 70 miles away from Loma Prieta

I could tell it was a big one, from the rolling sort of ground movement. I just didn't know how far away until later. I remember riding my motorcycle up into the Berkeley Hills and watching the Marina District fire in SF, and seeing most of West Oakland in darkness, with occasional flashes of electrical shorts... someone brought up a little portable TV and I was amazed to see how the Nimitz had collapsed. That baseball game probably saved my life... otherwise there's a good chance I would have been on that structure at that time - it was my regular commute from Alameda...

[B2G]

15. Maybe those crazy Christians and their eclipse nonsense

Are onto something.

[Hortensis]

17. Mexico City actually has an earthquake alert system that worked,

giving residents about a 1-minute warning window. I don't understand it, but MC is built on an ancient lake bed, which can play hell with forces transitioning to it from surrounding rock, like in 1985, but that grave problem is also part of a geologic advantage that allows the warning system to work, at least most of the time. A lot of other areas aren't so "fortunate."

[onecent]

19. I think everybody and everything thing is going to POT!!!!

[Glorfindel]

21. Poor Mexico! Hit by an even stronger earthquake on 09/08/17 off their west coast

Hurricane Katia in the Gulf on 09/08/17, Tropical Storm Max on the Pacific coast 09/14/17, and I think there was another hurricane back in August. Scary, scary stuff indeed.

[leftofcool]

25. Does the whole world have to fold in on itself?

What's it going to take for the GOP to believe we have a planet problem?

[mshasta]

27. God Please give a break

Tomorrow morning we willl know the real count of victims