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Second quake in two weeks sends Northern California back to response mode
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Northern California officials are back in clean-up mode after the second earthquake in two weeks struck the region Sunday morning, cracking walls and roads.
The 5.4 magnitude earthquake was shallow, striking at a depth of about 19 miles, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. It was centered about 30 miles south of Eureka and 9 miles southeast of Rio Dell, the USGS said.
A 6.4 earthquake also shook the area, about 125 miles south of the Oregon border, on December 20, resulting in two deaths.
Rio Dell Mayor Debra Garnes said the December quake also left 27 of the town’s homes red-tagged – meaning they were unsafe due to damage – and 73 homes yellow-tagged. Some of the buildings were further damaged Sunday and may need to be torn down, she said.
“We are kind of starting over – we had moved from our response to recovery, and now we are basically in both,” Garnes told CNN’s Pamela Brown Sunday. “We have to be back in response because the southern end of town really took it hard this time.”
Garnes said Sunday’s quake shook her house.
“It was crazy. The earthquake felt more violent this time,” Garnes told CNN. “It was shorter, but more violent. My refrigerator moved two feet. Things came out of the refrigerator. There’s a crack in my wall from the violence of it.”
Garnes said a neighbor’s house also had a crack in the wall from the quake.
The mayor said 30% of the town’s water is shut down and the town lost “pockets” of power. There is a 35-foot crack in one of the town’s main roads, she said.
But the mayor said there has been a “tremendous response from the community,” in the form of state and local agencies as well as aid from neighboring towns.
“Literally everyone is trying their best to help us get through this,” Garnes said.
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that Sunday’s quake had cut power to an estimated 50% of Rio Dell’s residents. It said the Red Cross had opened an overnight shelter for quake-impacted residents.
The Office of the California Governor Gavin Newsom said that it was monitoring the quake’s impact.
“Stay safe – check gas and water lines for damages or leaks, prepare for aftershocks, and remember to drop, cover, and hold on,” the office said in a tweet.
Magnitude 6.4 quake shakes northern California, leaves 2 dead, thousands without power
RIO DELL, Calif., Dec 20 (Reuters) – A powerful magnitude 6.4 earthquake jolted the extreme northern coast of California before dawn on Tuesday, damaging homes, roads and water systems and leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity.
At least 11 people were reported injured, and two others died from “medical emergencies” that occurred during or just after the quake, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office.
The tremor, which struck at 2:30 a.m. PST and was followed by about 80 aftershocks, was centered 215 miles (350 km) north of San Francisco offshore of Humboldt County, a largely rural area known for its redwood forests, local seafood, lumber industry and dairy farms.
The region also is known for relatively frequent seismic activity, although the latest quake appeared to cause more disruption than others in recent years.
Tuesday’s temblor set off one structure fire, which was quickly extinguished, and caused two other buildings to collapse, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire).
The department said its dispatchers fielded 70 emergency calls after the quake, including one report of a person left trapped who needed rescuing, spokesperson Tran Beyea said.
Details on quake-related casualties was sketchy, but one surviving victim was a child with a head injury and the other an older person with a broken hip, according to local media reports citing the sheriff’s office.
‘REALLY INTENSE’
Police closed a bridge crossing the Eel River into Ferndale, a picturesque town notable for its gingerbread-style Victorian storefronts and homes, after four large cracks were discovered in the span. The California Highway Patrol also said the roadway foundation there was at risk of sliding.
Authorities reported at least four other roads in Humboldt County closed due to earthquake damage, and a possible gas line rupture under investigation. One section of a roadway was reportedly sinking, the Highway Patrol said.
Ferndale and the adjacent towns of Fortuna and Rio Dell appeared hardest hit, with damage including water main breaks and about two dozen homes “red-tagged” because they were too unstable to be safely inhabited, state emergency services officials said.
[1/7] The collapsed second story porch of a house is seen after a strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern California, in Rio Dell, California, U.S. December 20, 2022. REUTERS/Fred Greaves
“The shaking was really intense,” said Daniel Holsapple, 33, a resident of nearby Arcata, who recounted grabbing his pet cat and running outside after he was jostled awake in pitch darkness by the motion of the house and an emergency alert from his cellphone.
“There was no seeing what was going on. It was just the sensation and that general low rumbling sound of the foundation of the whole house vibrating,” he said.
Janet Calderon, 32, who lives in the adjacent town of Eureka, said she was already awake and noticed her two cats seemed agitated moments before the quake struck, shaking her second-flood bedroom “really hard.”
“Everything on my desk fell over,” she said.
California’s earthquake early warning system appeared to have worked, sending electronic alerts to the mobile devices of some 3 million northern California residents 10 seconds before the first rumbles were felt, said state emergency chief Mark Ghilarducci.
While earthquakes producing noticeable shaking are routine in California, tremors at a magnitude 6.4 are less common and potentially dangerous, capable of causing partial building collapses or shifting structures off their foundations.
Tuesday’s temblor struck in a seismically active area where several tectonic plates converge on the sea floor about 2 miles offshore, an area that has produced about 40 quakes in the 6.0-7.0 range over the past century, said Cynthia Pridmore, a senior geologist for the California Geological Survey.
“So it is not unusual to have earthquakes of this size in this region,” she told a news conference.
Shaking from Tuesday’s quake, which occurred at the relatively shallow depth of 11.1 miles (17.9 km) was felt as far away as the San Francisco Bay area, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The biggest aftershock registered a magnitude 4.6.
Some 79,000 homes and businesses were without power in Ferndale and surrounding Humboldt County shortly after the quake, according to the electric grid tracking website PowerOutage.us.
PG&E crews were out assessing the utility’s gas and electric system for any damage and hazards, which could take several days, company spokesperson Karly Hernandez said.
Reporting by Nathan Frandino in Rio Dell, Calif.; Writing and additional reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Additional reporting by Daniel Trotta in Calsbad, Calif; Rich McKay in Atlanta, Brendan O’Brien in Chicago, Laila Kearney in New York City and Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Mark Porter, Lisa Shumaker and Richard Chang
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NASA InSight lander records largest quake on Mars ever, scientists say
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander has recorded its biggest quake on Mars ever.
According to new research published in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal Geophysical Research Letters, the international team said on the Earth night of May 4, the lander’s seismometer detected a quake that was at least five times as big as the next largest one recorded on the red planet.
“This was definitely the biggest marsquake that we have seen,” Taichi Kawamura, lead author and planetary scientist at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, France, said in a release.
Co-author and seismologist John Clinton, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, said the energy released by the single marsquake is equivalent with the cumulative energy from all other marsquakes seen thus far.
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Clinton, who is a co-leader with Kawamura at the marsquake service, said the waves recorded at InSight were so big that they almost saturated the seismometer.
A view of Mars from NASA’s Mars InSight Lander.
(NASA/Twitter)
The waves from the marsquake last for about 10 hours.
No previous marsquake’s waves had exceeded the length of an hour.
The previous biggest tremor, recorded in August 2021, was around a magnitude of 4.2, while the May quake had a magnitude of 4.7.
The epicenter of the quake was outside the most seismically active region on Mars.
This seismic event was also rare in that it exhibited characteristics of both high- and low-frequency quakes.
The domed seismometer on NASA’s InSight Lander measured Mars’s largest quake.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech.)
The data from this large quake were released in October by the Mars Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) data service, NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) and the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), together with the marsquake service catalog.
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Seismology on Mars can help researchers better understand what’s underneath its surface and its evolution.
Most marsquakes are believed to occur due to fault movements.
This image shows InSight’s domed Wind and Thermal Shield, which covers its seismometer, called Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, or SEIS.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
InSight is thought to be near its operational end because dust has progressively covered its solar panels and reduced its power.
“We are impressed that almost at the end of the extended mission, we had this very remarkable event,” Kawamura said.
Based on the data gathered from the marsquake, “I would say this mission was an extraordinary success,” he continued.
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“My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon,” Insight’s 25-30 person team posted to the lander’s Twitter on Monday. “Thanks for staying with me.”
Since it landed in November 2018, the lander has provided insight on Mars’ liquid core and the composition of its other interior layers. It has detected hundreds of quakes.
Fox News’ Paul Best contributed to this report.
Gigantic Quake Recorded on Mars Was as Powerful as All Others Combined : ScienceAlert
A tremendous, record-breaking quake that rocked Mars in May of this year was at least five times larger than the previous record-holder, new research has revealed.
It’s unclear what the source of the quake was, but it was definitely peculiar. In addition to being the most powerful quake recorded yet on Mars, it was also the longest by a significant amount, shaking the red planet for 10 hours.
“The energy released by this single marsquake is equivalent to the cumulative energy from all other marsquakes we’ve seen so far,” says seismologist John Clinton of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland, “and although the event was over 2000 kilometers (1200 miles) distant, the waves recorded at InSight were so large they almost saturated our seismometer.”
The new analysis of the quake, published in Geophysical Research Letters, set its magnitude at 4.7. The previous record-holder was a magnitude 4.2 quake detected in August 2021.
That might not sound like a big quake by Earth standards, where the most powerful quake ever recorded tipped a magnitude of around 9.5. But for a planet that had been thought seismically inactive until NASA’s InSight probe started recording its interior in early 2019, it’s impressive.
Although Mars and Earth have a lot in common, there are some really key differences. Mars doesn’t have tectonic plates; and nor does it have a coherent, global magnetic field, often interpreted as a sign that not much is happening in the Martian interior, since Earth’s magnetic field is theorized to be the result of internal thermal convection.
InSight has revealed that Mars isn’t as seismically quiet as we’d previously assumed. It creaks and rumbles, hinting at volcanic activity under the Cerberus Fossae region where the InSight lander squats, monitoring the planet’s hidden innards.
But determining the activity status of the Martian interior isn’t the only reason to monitor marsquakes. The way seismic waves propagate through and across the surface of a planet can help reveal density variations in its interior. In other words, they can be used to reconstruct the structure of the planet.
This is usually done here on Earth, but hundreds of quakes recorded by InSight have allowed scientists to build a map of the Martian interior, too.
The May quake may have been just one seismic event, but it seems it was an important one.
“For the first time we were able to identify surface waves, moving along the crust and upper mantle, that have traveled around the planet multiple times,” Clinton says.
In two other, separate papers in Geophysical Research Letters, teams of scientists have analyzed these waves to try to understand the structure of the crust on Mars, identifying regions of sedimentary rock and possible volcanic activity inside the crust.
But there’s more to be done on the quake itself. Firstly, it originated near, but not from, the Cerberus Fossae region, and could not be traced to any obvious surface features. This suggests that it could be related to something hidden below the crust.
Secondly, marsquakes usually have either a high or a low frequency, the former characterized by quick, short tremors, and the latter by longer, deeper waves with bigger amplitudes. This quake combined both frequency ranges, and the researchers aren’t entirely sure why. However, it’s possible that previously recorded high- and low-frequency marsquakes analyzed separately may be two parts of the same seismic event.
This could mean that scientists need to rethink how marsquakes are understood and analyzed, revealing even more secrets hiding under the deceptively quiet Martian surface.
“This was definitely the biggest marsquake that we have seen,” says planetary scientist Taichi Kawamura of the Paris Globe Institute of Physics in France.
“Stay tuned for more exciting stuff following this.”
The research has been published in Geophysical Research Letters.
Children at school among 162 dead in Indonesia quake
CIANJUR, Indonesia, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Children killed when their schools collapsed accounted for many of the 162 dead in an earthquake that devastated a town on Indonesia’s main island of Java, an official said on Tuesday, as rescuers raced to reach people trapped in rubble.
Hundreds of people were injured in the Monday quake and officials warned the death toll was likely to rise.
The shallow 5.6-magnitude quake struck in mountains in Indonesia’s most populous province of West Java, causing significant damage to the town of Cianjur and burying at least one village under a landslide.
Landslides and rough terrain were hampering rescue efforts, said Henri Alfiandi, head of National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas).
“The challenge is the affected area is spread out … On top of that, the roads in these villages are damaged,” Alfiandi told a news conference, adding that more than 13,000 people had been evacuated.
“Most of the casualties are children, because at 1 p.m. they were still at school,” he said, referring to the time the quake hit.
Many of the fatalities resulted from people trapped under collapsed buildings, officials said.
President Joko Widodo flew in to Cianjur on Tuesday to encourage rescuers.
“My instruction is to prioritise evacuating victims that are still trapped under rubble,” said the president, who is known as Jokowi.
He offered his condolences to the victims and pledged emergency government support. Reconstruction should include earthquake-prone housing to protect against future disasters, he said.
Survivors gathered overnight in a Cianjur hospital parking lot. Some of the injured were treated in tents, others were hooked up to intravenous drips on the pavement as medical workers stitched up patients under torch light.
“Everything collapsed beneath me and I was crushed beneath this child,” Cucu, a 48-year-old resident, told Reuters.
“Two of my kids survived, I dug them up … Two others I brought here, and one is still missing,” she said through tears.
[1/10] Indonesia rescue members evacuate people from the site of a landslide caused by the earthquake in Cugenang, Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 22, 2022. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
Footage from Kompas TV showed people holding cardboard signs asking for food and shelter, with emergency supplies seemingly yet to reach them.
Hundreds of police officers were deployed to help the rescue effort, Dedi Prasetyo, national police spokesperson told the Antara state news agency.
“Today’s main task order for personnel is to focus on evacuating victims,” he said.
‘SWEPT AWAY’
West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said at least 162 people were killed, many of them children, while the toll from the national disaster agency (BNPB) stood at 103, with 31 missing.
Authorities were operating “under the assumption that the number of injured and death will rise”, the governor said, with at least one village buried by landslides triggered by the quake.
Cianjur police chief told Metro TV that 20 people had been evacuated from the district of Cugenang, most of whom had died, with residents reporting missing family members.
The area was hit by a landslide triggered by the quake that had blocked access to the area.
“At least six of my relatives are still unaccounted for, three adults and three children,” said Zainuddin, a resident of Cugenang.
“If it was just an earthquake only the houses would collapse, but this is worse because of the landslide. In this residential area there were eight houses, all of the which were buried and swept away.”
Rescue efforts were complicated by electricity outages in some areas, and more than 100 aftershocks.
Straddling the so-called “Ring of Fire”, a highly seismically active zone where different plates on the earth’s crust meet, Indonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes.
In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off Sumatra island in northern Indonesia triggered a tsunami that struck 14 countries, killing 226,000 people.
Reporting by Tommy Adriansyah and Ajeng Dinar Ulfina in Cianjur; and Gayatri Suroyo, Ananda Teresia, Fransiska Nangoy and Bernadette Christina Munthe in Jakarta; Writing by Kate Lamb; Editing by Ed Davies and Stephen Coates
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Indonesia quake kills scores, reduces homes to rubble, injuring hundreds
CIANJUR, Indonesia, Nov 21 (Reuters) – A 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 60 people and injured hundreds in Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, with rescuers trying to reach survivors trapped under the rubble amid a series of aftershocks.
The epicentre was near the town of Cianjur in West Java, about 75 km (45 miles) southeast of the capital, Jakarta, where some buildings shook and some offices were evacuated.
Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said 62 people had been killed. At least 25 people were trapped under collapsed buildings, it said.
BNPB spokesperson Abdul Muhari said the search would continue through the night.
“So many buildings crumbled and shattered,” West Java governor Ridwan Kamil told reporters.
“There are residents trapped in isolated places … so we are under the assumption that the number of injured and deaths will rise with time.”
Indonesia straddles the so-called “Pacific Ring of Fire”, a highly seismically active zone, where different plates on the Earth’s crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes.
The BNPB said more than 2,200 houses had been damaged and more than 5,300 people had been displaced.
[1/5] Medical workers treat the victims outside the district hospital after earthquake hit in Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 21, 2022, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Raisan Al Farisi via REUTERS
Electricity was down and disrupting communications efforts, Herman Suherman, head of Cianjur’s government, said, adding that a landslide was blocking evacuations in one area.
Hundreds of victims were being treated in a hospital parking lot, some under an emergency tent. Elsewhere in Cianjur, residents huddled together on mats in open fields or in tents while buildings around them had been reduced almost entirely to rubble.
Officials were still working to determine the full extent of the damage caused by the quake, which struck at a relatively shallow depth of 10 km, according to the weather and geophysics agency (BMKG).
Vani, who was being treated at Cianjur main hospital, told MetroTV that the walls of her house collapsed during an aftershock.
“The walls and wardrobe just fell… Everything was flattened, I don’t even know the whereabouts of my mother and father,” she said.
Within two hours, 25 aftershocks had been recorded, BMKG said, adding there were concerns about more landslides in the event of heavy rain.
In Jakarta, some people evacuated offices in the central business district, while others reported buildings shaking and furniture moving, Reuters witnesses said.
In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off Sumatra island in northern Indonesia triggered a tsunami that struck 14 countries, killing 226,000 people along the Indian Ocean coastline, more than half of them in Indonesia.
Reporting by Tommy Ardiansyah, Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana and Johan Purnomo in Cianjur, Ananda Teresia, Gayatri Suroyo, Fransiska Nangoy in Jakarta
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A quake may have uncovered 30 new dinosaur tracks in Alaska
They included two unique footprints: one made by an ankylosaur, an armored plant-eating dinosaur, and the other by a carnivorous theropod. Theropods are three-toed predators that include tyrannosaurs. Only two such tracks from a theropod have been recorded by Fiorillo’s team here.
“I’m very excited because it allows us to do a statistical analysis with the robust data,” said a member of Fiorillo’s team, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, a paleontology professor at Japan’s Hokkaido University Museum. “With a few [prints], it’s like you’re sharing a whisper from dinosaurs, but if you have a huge number, it’s like screaming. The dinosaurs are telling us something.”
The team is collecting data to explain how enormous reptiles were able to survive 75 million years ago in a climate that more closely resembled present-day Seattle or Portland, Ore. A wet and rainy climate and relatively temperate weather doesn’t seem ideal for multi-ton reptiles, but dinosaurs thrived here, Fiorillo said.
Fiorillo, the executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, has spent 10 field seasons at Aniakchak. The area has intrigued him since he first discovered a dinosaur footprint here in 2002. “Walking these couple of miles, there’s just a truly remarkable frequency of tracks on the beach and in the cliffs,” Fiorillo said, “And I would be a little hard pressed to think of that kind of density in track abundance” elsewhere.
Most of the footprints from roughly 75 million years ago in the late Cretaceous were made by hadrosaurs, which were duck-billed herbivores. Dinosaur remains and ancient soil samples informed a study published in April in the journal Geosciences. It showed that mean annual precipitation had more to do with structuring habitat selection than mean annual temperature among dinosaurs that roamed in Alaska. The study compared the team’s findings not only from Aniakchak Bay but also from work on Alaska’s North Slope and in Denali National Park and Preserve.
During the late Cretaceous, Aniakchak wasn’t much farther south than it is today, so this team has returned here nearly every year since 2016 to piece together a more comprehensive picture of how dinosaurs were able to survive here.
“We don’t have a lot of high-resolution dating throughout this section” of rocks, said Paul McCarthy, head of the Geosciences Department at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, who specializes in ancient soils, or paleosols.
At Aniakchak, the geologist is focusing on a 300-meter-thick (328-yard-thick) section of layered sedimentary rock. “So we know the age of the 300-meter section,” he said, but what’s missing is a layer, or several, within that section that can help provide more details about how and when the climate changed here.
It “is really impossible without knowing exactly how much time each individual segment represents,” McCarthy said.
This outcrop, however, offers other details that allow the team to get specific about dinosaurs and their habitat preferences.
“As you go through time within this section, we can compare who’s walking around to the plants, the soils and whether they’re on a river flood plain or in an estuary” or some other place, McCarthy said.
One end of a roughly three-mile-long stretch of coastline is littered with tracks made by juvenile hadrosaurs. The rocks indicate that area was once an estuary, where a river dumped into a tidal flat. On the other end, the majority of tracks were laid down in an exposed intertidal zone by fully grown adult hadrosaurs.
Nicknamed “the cradle of storms,” Aniakchak Bay offers something new to Fiorillo on each visit. Where piles of kelp had washed up to rot on the beach last year, swaths of black sand took over this summer. Storms here are dramatic enough to move vehicle-size boulders, and the rocks seem to shape shift as thick sheets of rain give way to intermittent sunshine.
Fiorillo and his team will present some of their findings at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver. The four-day event begins Oct. 9.
“And then we’ll see what new questions come up as we really start to analyze the data and then think about next year,” Fiorillo said.
Mexico earthquake today live updates: Tsunami warning revised as death toll from 7.6 magnitude quake rises to two
7.5 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico’s pacific coast
At least two people were killed by a major earthquake off the coast of Michoacán state in Mexico.
The earthquake, measured at a magnitude of 7.6, stuck on exactly the same day that two previous earthquakes caused enormous damage and killed hundreds or thousands of people in 1985 and 2017.
One of the victims died on Monday after being crushed by the facade of a department store in the Pacific port of Manzanillo, while another was found dead at a mall.
The tremor passed without that level of tragedy, despite heightened nerves from a nationwide annual earthquake drill that occurred less than an hour before.
The tsunami alert, which was issued immediately after the quake, was revised later in the day.
Authorities said the tsunami threat has “largely passed”, with minor sea fluctuations of up to 0.3 metres above and below the normal tide to continue for the next few hours.
Videos emerge of shaking and destruction after earthquake
Tourists and locals captured video of the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck the central coast of Mexico, sharing scenes of rattling rooms and even teetering pickup trucks.
In a video shared by Diario de Morelos, a publication covering the region near the earthquake’s epicentre, a pair of trucks can be seen shaking violently as seismic activity rocks the region.
John-Carlos Estrada, a journalist at CBS Austin, shared several videos of the quake from people on the ground in Mexico. In one video street signs in Mexico City can be seen swaying due to the earthquake. Mexico City is about 485km (302 miles) from the earthquake’s epicentre.
Videos emerge of shaking and destruction after 7.6 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico
The quake, which occurred on the same date as two other major Mexican earthquakes, set off a wave of tsunami alerts around the Pacific
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 September 2022 10:15
After quake, Mexico city warned of Popocatépetl volcano ashfall
Authorities in Mexico City on Monday warned of ash fall from the Popocatépetl volcano, which erupted twice on 9 September.
According to reports, people have been advised to not engage in outdoor activities and keep pets inside the house.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 September 2022 09:15
ICYMI: Videos show shaking and destruction in western Mexico
Videos on social media showed Monday’s earthquake rocking trucks back and forth, shaking hotel rooms, and scattering ceiling tiles across the floor in office buildings, my colleague Graig Graziosi reports.
Read his full story to get a sense of how the quake affected everyday Mexicans.
Io Dodds20 September 2022 08:14
Twenty hospitals damaged in Michoacán
At least 20 hospitals in the state of Michoacán have suffered structural damage from the earthquake, local authorities say.
According to Mexico AS, the state health ministry reported that medical facilities in Uruapan, Apatzingán, Pátzcuaro, and many other towns had been hit by the tremor, along with churches and a technical college in Coalcomán.
A video posted on Twitter showed products strewn across the floor in aisle after aisle of a Michoacán supermarket. Neighbouring Jalisco state also reported damage to religious buildings.
Io Dodds20 September 2022 07:03
Death toll rises to two
Two people were killed in the Pacific port of Manzanillo in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that jolted Mexico yesterday, authorities said.
One of the victims died after being crushed by the facade of a department store while another was found dead at a mall.
Videos on social media showed the roof of the mall collapsed into the top floor, a gym, as people yelled for help.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 September 2022 07:02
Church in Michoacán damaged in powerful quake
The church of San Miguel Arcángel in Michoacán was damaged after a powerful earthquake struck Mexico on Monday.
A video captured by locals showed debris falling out of a hole from the church building that was caused by the jolt. Cracks were also spotted on one of the bell towers of the church.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 September 2022 06:40
Another eerie coincidence
This earthquake happened less than an hour after Mexico’s annual nationwide earthquake drill, which was introduced in 1985 after the devastating quake in Mexico City.
Across the country, about 14,000 loudspeakers issued a fake warning in order to test people’s responses, with millions of civilians evacuating their homes, schools, and workplaces.
Io Dodds20 September 2022 06:00
Earthquake affects power supply to 1.2 million users
Nearly 1.2 million users were left without electricity after the powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Monday.
According to the federal electricity commission, until 3.30pm local time the reinstallation of power supply was achieved for 68 per cent of the affected users.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 September 2022 05:43
Video shows hotel room ceiling fan shaking during earthquake
A video shared on Twitter showed a ceiling fan violently shaking in a hotel room in Puerto Vallarta when the 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Michoacán state in Mexico.
According to local reports, several hotels in the resort town suffered damage, with cracks emerging on ceilings and windows.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 September 2022 05:14
Tsunami threat has ‘passed’, say authorities
The tsunami warning which was issued immediately after the earthquake off the coast of Michoacán state has been revised.
According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, the tsunami threat has “largely passed”.
Earlier, waves reaching up to 3 metres were earlier predicted to hit Mexico and along the coast of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala among other countries, but recent readings have shown a relative decrease in wave heights.
“Minor sea level fluctuations of up to 0.3 metres above and below the normal tide may continue over the next few hours,” it said.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 September 2022 04:51