{"id":515116,"date":"2010-04-04T20:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T00:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec756314970b"},"modified":"2010-04-04T21:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:17:34","slug":"mexicali-earthquake-upgraded-to-7-2-aftershocks-reported-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/515116","title":{"rendered":"Mexicali earthquake upgraded to 7.2; aftershocks reported [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Map<\/img><\/a>The earthquake that struck near Mexicali this afternoon was upgraded to a preliminary magnitude of 7.2, but there were no reports of major damage or injuries in San Diego or Los Angeles. There have also been several aftershocks in the last hour.<\/p>\n

[Updated, 5:09 p.m.:<\/strong>\u00a0 Information about quake damage in Mexico remains sketchy. According to Reuters, there have been reports of people trapped in elevators, collapsed retaining walls and power outages in and around Mexicali.\u00a0 Telephone lines were down and items fell off of shelves and bookcases, according to reports.<\/p>\n

In San Diego County, officials said no injuries have been reported so far.\u00a0 But authorities are looking into reports of shattered glass and items falling off of shelves.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

The
\nLos Angeles Fire Department said their preliminary inspections of major infrastructure — such as tall buildings, freeway bridges and stadiums — found no problems.<\/p>\n

"All fire stations completed their district drive-through assessment with
\nno significant damage or injuries reported. LAFD had a slight increase in
\n911 call load mostly associated with automatic alarms and stuck
\nelevators. Again no significant damage or injuries reported," the LAFD said in a statement.<\/p>\n

San Diego County officials also said they found no significant damage. There were reports of people stuck in elevators. LAFD officials said they found broken elevators — but no one stuck inside. Rides were temporarily
\nclosed at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim.<\/p>\n

The temblor struck at 3:40 p.m. about 108 miles east of Tijuana. In Los
\nAngeles, the shaking lasted for several seconds. <\/p>\n

Jeniffer Haynie, 59, of Hemet was sitting by the side of her bed reading the newspaper and got up when the ground began moving. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it first started it felt like I was on a roller coaster,\u201d Hayne said in a phone interview. \u201cIt slowed down, then it picked up even faster for about a minute.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As the ground shook, she said, she grabbed her Brussels griffon, Chewbacca, and told him to hang on. The quake lasted for about a minute, Hayne said. \u201cThat\u2019s a long time for an earthquake,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

This part of Baja California — near Mexicali — has experienced
\nregular seismic activity — mostly small quakes but also some strong
\nones. Guadalupe Victoria has recorded numerous minor quakes in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

Caltech seismologists were still studying the details of the temblor, trying to connect it to a specific fault. They said it’s possible that the quake was so large it ruptured all the way into California.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people so far have
\nreported it on the "Did You Feel It" reporting system<\/a> at the U.S.
\nGeological Survey.<\/p>\n

— Ruben Vives, Rong-Gong Lin II and Shelby Grad in Los Angeles, Richard Winton in Pasadena and Tony Perry in San Diego<\/p>\n

Shaking intensity map. USGS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The earthquake that struck near Mexicali this afternoon was upgraded to a preliminary magnitude of 7.2, but there were no reports of major damage or injuries in San Diego or Los Angeles. There have also been several aftershocks in the last hour. [Updated, 5:09 p.m.:\u00a0 Information about quake damage in Mexico remains sketchy. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}