Big earthquake in Mexico

[Deleted]

But it's in Baja California. Bixa's dog Ginger should be able to tell us if it could be felt in Oaxaca.

[spindrift]

That's all right then. So long as Bixa is ok.

[Deleted]

Don Cuevas might be closer. I need to look at a map.

[Deleted]

Quite a bit closer, in fact, but still not in the neighborhood of Baja.

[Deleted]

Quite far north, actually. Perhaps traveler63 can tell us how it felt, because it shook Arizona.

[Don Cuevas]

Didn't feel a thing here. We live in the western Central Highlands state of Michoacán (as defined by Lonely Planet), and sometimes there are tremors, but we have felt them only once.

Not too far away, maybe 60 miles west-ish, is the volcanic cone of Paricutín, that erupted in a cornfield in Februrary, 1943, and continued to fume and grow until 1952.

The valley in which we live is defined by volcanic features, which can be readily seen on Google Earth. Fortunately, they are extinct or at least dormant now.

[bixaorellana]

No, DonC & I are neither extinct nor dormant. I wasn't worried about him as I have a good fix on where he lives.

Ginger was sleeping more than usual today. Perhaps that means something.

[traveler63]

Really didn't feel it, perhaps because we were on the treadmill at the gym when it shook. Some people in downtown offices here said they did feel it. Believe me, I grew up in Southern California and I know one when I feel it.

[Deleted]

Glad you're ok.

[hwinpp]

I've only been in one earthquake and I felt it alright. It was in Algeria, 80 or 81. We were having lunch on a small trip, must have been a weekend, and at first I thought somebody was jumping up and down behind me.

[bixaorellana]

I just felt a pretty disconcerting earthquake here in Coatepec, Veracruz. Somehow I thought I wouldn't feel any here. It came in two waves, the first a tremor that I could feel sitting on the sofa. The second one obviously an earthquake, as it quaked the whole floor of the house and I could hear the upstairs moving and things sort of jingling all over the house. Did not like it!

I'm on facebook groups in both the Xalapa area and in Oaxaca right now, where people are reporting their experiencing of the quake.

www.reuters.com/world/americas/mild-quake-felt-mexico-city-no-immediate-reports-damages-2023-10-07/

[kerouac2]

I never thought of your area being an earthquake zone either, but of course you were not at the epicentre, wherever it turns out to be.

[kerouac2]

I see that the epicentre was in Matias Romero in the state of Oaxaca with a little bit of damage in the city of Oaxaca.

[cheerypeabrain]

I'm just glad that you're ok Bixa, is there much damage?

[bixaorellana]

Last night I saw a photo where part of the church where Charlie lives, in San Sebastian Tutla, just outside the city of Oaxaca, had fallen. She said the town had just finished repairing it. Wonder if it was the fixed part that fell.

Other than that, any damage is being reported as minimum in Mexico city, although in Oaxaca some walls have fallen, there are fallen rocks on highways, a bridged moved, and cracks in the public hospital. source
I know exactly where that building is in the next to the last picture in the article. It's been abandoned and in bad condition for years and years.

[lugg]

Glad you are ok Bixa

[bixaorellana]

Thanks, Lugg. Some people living only a few miles away said that they felt nothing, slept through it, etc.