Buildings swaying, people fleeing to streets after Mexico City earthquake

Buildings swaying, people fleeing to streets after Mexico City earthquake

rt.com

Thousands have fled to into the streets of Mexico City after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the area.

Mexico Seismology Service said the quake was centered about 30 miles southwest of Pinotepa Nacional on the Pacific Coast.

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The earthquake set off a city-wide alarm and caused nearby buildings to sway.

There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW.


This is strange, the earthquake still needs to happen ? Or what? Currently no more info. So is this a big one coming?

Hope they get this on camera
Didn't anyone see this coming ? TA ? Olivine?


rt.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

earthquake.usgs.gov...
quakes.globalincidentmap.com...

here are the 2 sites i watch

www.reuters.com...

5.5 near Mexico City. The entire city is a giant landfill site. Any moderate quake would rock the city pretty good.

So far no injuries, but this was kinda weird though, the article got altered abit but the tone of the first article made it seem like the Earthquake didn't happen yet. but that it was building up to one That's why I posted this.

Now the rewritten update talked about a 5.5 which is hardly a biggie. I'm following twitter and major news outlets to see how this develops.

My wife has family there. She is going to call them now and ask what happened exactly.

I pray all is well there.

Strange..

2013-03-26 13:12:21 5.0 16.51°N 98.18°W Near Coast of Guerrero, Mexico
2013-03-26 13:04:50 5.3 16.26°N 98.20°W Near Coast of Guerrero, Mexico
2013-03-26 12:54:22 4.3 15.83°N 93.91°W Near Coast of Chiapas, Mexico

Nothing really unusual for that area, I would think. Only about 4.3-5.3 in magnitude.

not long ago there was an earthquake in mexico within past 24 hours. Maybe a small swarm of before shocks before the big niner

This is the final written article,

Thousands have fled into the streets of Mexico City after a 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck the area.

The US Geological Survey said the quake was centered six miles west of Pinotepa Nacional in Oaxaca.

The earthquake struck at 13:04 GMT and was 20.5 miles deep.

The earthquake set off an alarm throughout Mexico City and caused nearby buildings to sway.

There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.^/quote]

If anyone has family there hope they are well.

Btw that poster a few posts up thx for the links hehe.

That is a moderate quake. Those are not bad. The last 5.6 we had here in SoCali we were put on alert for 24 hrs in case of a larger one....Its coming sooner than later for us.

reply to post by Senduko


Mexico doesn't have the same building standards as the U.S. or even Chile so any moderate quick is enough to bring buildings down there.

Nothing to see here really. It's Haiti just waiting to happen again.

Type: Earthquake
2 hours ago
Magnitude: 5.5
DateTime: Tuesday March 26 2013, 13:04:48 UTC
Region: offshore Oaxaca, Mexico
Depth: 10 km
Source: USGS Feed

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Type: Earthquake
116 minutes ago
Magnitude: 5.1
DateTime: Tuesday March 26 2013, 13:12:19 UTC
Region: Oaxaca, Mexico
Depth: 12.9 km
Source: USGS Feed

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Originally posted by antonia
reply to post by Senduko

 

Mexico doesn't have the same building standards as the U.S. or even Chile so any moderate quick is enough to bring buildings down there.

Nothing to see here really. It's Haiti just waiting to happen again.

It appears that not all quakes make it to the headlines.

Earthquakes on Earth

reply to post by TauCetixeta


There are earthquakes everyday all over the world. It isn't until it is in an unusual place or thousands of people die that it is news.

Originally posted by antonia
reply to post by TauCetixeta

 

There are earthquakes everyday all over the world. It isn't until it is in an unusual place or thousands of people die that it is news.

edit on 26-3-2013 by antonia because: opps

There are earthquakes all over the world everyday. - True -

Click on the above link. Some days more than others.........check out the number of quakes

this week.


Alaska is getting a lot of quakes..........today!!

What will surprise me is if there is actually some 8's or 9's on April 2nd.

If so...then maybe May 17th will be really bad.

Shake, shake, shake, yo bootay...