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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 12, 2017 16:52:41 GMT
I experienced earthquakes starting from the time my family moved to California. You never get used to them but you quickly learn to gauge whether there is anything to worry about. The strongest one I ever felt was in 1971 during the "San Fernando quake" in the suburbs of Los Angeles where I was going to university. It was a 6.7 and damage was extensive. 58 people died.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 14, 2017 21:08:33 GMT
I just learned some news -- Due to earthquake damage the Panteón General in the city is closed, but the traditional evening of the dead will take place at the Panteón Xochimilco. sourceHtmb & Kerouac will remember the Panteón Xochimilco as the small one above my house. You can see it in the Oaxaca cemeteries thread from last year. In fact, this link at #37 will take you to Htmb's pictures of it. (& you can see Kerouac's and mine as well in the same thread)See the Panteón General in all its open-to-the-public glory in an earlier year here, starting at #50 & continuing to next page.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 15, 2017 10:20:59 GMT
Yes, I certainly remember the monastery visit... which reminds me of all the earthquake damage sustained in Assisi. I was lucky to have seen the Giotto frescoes when I was living in Perugia.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 15, 2017 11:40:24 GMT
I just learned some news -- Due to earthquake damage the Panteón General in the city is closed, but the traditional evening of the dead will take place at the Panteón Xochimilco. sourceJust so long as there is a place to set up kiddie rides and food stands, that's what really counts!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 15, 2017 16:24:44 GMT
In your post #23 in the thread linked above, you can see how wide one street is that borders that cemetery, but I suspect the rides and food stands will be on both of the border streets and maybe inside the churchyard, too. Photo-op-wise, those things count big time, but the treating of the (living) populace to bread and chocolate is also really important. I wonder if they'll have that part in the adjacent churchyard. LaGatta ~ monastery visit?
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Post by lagatta on Oct 15, 2017 21:36:40 GMT
I'm mentioning your monastery visit near Oaxaca and the fact that it was evocative for me, in light of the recent earthquakes, of my visits to the basilica (?) of Saint Francis in Assisi with the famous Giotto frescoes, many of which were destroyed by an earthquake after I studied there.
I know that this famous church and that of Saint Clare (Santa Chiara) were not the cathedral, which obviously predated both of those famous hometown saints, but often forget the precise churchy classification of them.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 23, 2017 1:17:34 GMT
The Mennonites put together pre-fab aluminum houses for the people in the Isthmus left homeless by the earthquakes. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/more-instant-houses-for-earthquake-victims/Meanwhile, there are 80 tents and other top-notch camping supplies waiting in San Francisco. Apparently shipping takes two weeks and a search is on for people coming for day of the dead who'd be willing to bring them as extra baggage.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 17, 2020 21:01:19 GMT
I see the ground was wiggling a little bit around Oaxaca today.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2020 5:35:23 GMT
Last night a little after 8 people on facebook were saying "Did you feel that?". Snug & smug here on my rock ridge, I didn't feel anything. I didn't know there was any action today. Just went to the report sites to check & I see that the national drill is coming up in a couple of days: www.ssn.unam.mx/macrosimulacro2020/It also appears that there was a dinky quake earlier tonight: www.ssn.unam.mx/Hm. Reported in the link above, but not in this one: earthquaketrack.com/p/mexico/oaxaca/recent
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 23, 2020 16:35:13 GMT
News just announced that there has just been an earthquake in Oaxaca, no details given.
Bixa? You ok my darling?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 23, 2020 16:38:26 GMT
Should be okay, since the quake was near the coast while the city of Oaxaca is quite a bit inland. But the resident expert should be able to give us more details soon.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2020 18:01:00 GMT
That was scary as all get-out!
I was sitting in my spot in the living room, tooling around the internet with a fresh cup of coffee next to me on my Typhoo Tea coaster. The gas truck went down my street and I felt some movement, thinking how odd that the gas truck would cause that. But no! It got much stronger and went on for way too long. Every single thing on my patio was moving -- the carport, the windchimes, the mobile -- and the dogs were freaked out, as was I. When I came back inside I posted on my still open facebook page about the big quake. Then came to anyport and realized that the electricity had gone out, so no wifi. I went out to buy some air time for my phone, but no one was able to sell me any since their lights were out as well.
Anyway, the wifi is obviously back & all is well, although I admit I was scared.
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Post by bjd on Jun 23, 2020 18:08:28 GMT
Glad to hear you're alright, Bixa.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 23, 2020 18:13:53 GMT
THANK GOODNESS xxx even Jeff was worried. We are all glad that you are ok. Look after yourself darling girl
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2020 18:27:28 GMT
Thanks, ladies! Thanks, Jeff! A funny story a friend just told me: Mutual friends who spend part of the year in Oaxaca are back in the States right now. My friend heard from the husband, wanting to know if she was okay. She asked how he knew about the earthquake. His wife was upstairs doing yoga on Zoom with an instructor here in Oaxaca, so the wife saw the whole thing as it happened.
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Post by mossie on Jun 23, 2020 19:10:24 GMT
Scary, very pleased to hear you are safe Bixa.
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Post by lugg on Jun 23, 2020 20:15:01 GMT
Yikes that does sound scary Bixa - so glad you are ok and hoping too that your patio and pots etc are not damaged.
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Post by htmb on Jun 23, 2020 20:18:18 GMT
It must have been quite frightening!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2020 20:18:54 GMT
Very kind ~ thank you, Mossie, Lugg, & Htmb! Here is something kind of icky ~ After I posted earlier in this thread, I went to wash a few dishes that were in the sink. When I began rinsing them I realized the water was all brown because the sludge at the bottom of the roof cistern was roiled up by the earthquake. !
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 23, 2020 20:48:51 GMT
Not to mention the fact that you will be having a few aftershocks. Those always make you wonder if the first one was just a preshock.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 23, 2020 20:49:21 GMT
That was scary as all get-out! I was sitting in my spot in the living room, tooling around the internet with a fresh cup of coffee next to me on my Typhoo Tea coaster. The gas truck went down my street and I felt some movement, thinking how odd that the gas truck would cause that. But no! It got much stronger and went on for way too long. Every single thing on my patio was moving -- the carport, the windchimes, the mobile -- and the dogs were freaked out, as was I. When I came back inside I posted on my still open facebook page about the big quake. Then came to anyport and realized that the electricity had gone out, so no wifi. I went out to buy some air time for my phone, but no one was able to sell me any since their lights were out as well. Anyway, the wifi is obviously back & all is well, although I admit I was scared. I should think you were! So glad you are ok. X
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Post by casimira on Jun 24, 2020 10:58:38 GMT
I just heard about this this a.m. And then T. heard too and made me immediately come on here to check on you Bixa. Glad you are ok. I have never experienced one of these and am not real keen on ever having to. Hurricanes, at least one has some forewarning. Earthquakes, way too sudden for me. Again, so glad you are safe and I can reassure T. the same.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2020 12:42:22 GMT
It's funny that it missed Europe this time. Usually when there is a major scirocco, all of Western Europe gets dusted. It becomes Christmas for the car wash industry.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2020 16:33:08 GMT
Again, so glad you are safe and I can reassure T. the same. Thanks! I did see some of the damage yesterday afternoon, but as I suspected, it involved old, unmaintained adobe walls. We had pretty heavy rain all night long before yesterday's earthquake so that plus the quaking was bound to damage them. On one of the local FB groups, people in other parts of town reported things falling off shelves. Like Casimira, I'd rather deal with hurricanes than earthquakes. Were there aftershocks? Are you getting the plume of Sahara dust? We're north of the thick part of the plume and have a hazy strange light in the sky like a midwestern fall day. From the trackers, looks like you're next. Huckle, people around town report feeling aftershocks, but neither I nor my next door neighbor have felt any, for which I am grateful. Yesterday morning I went to check on a friend who lives on this same rock ridge, but west & slightly south of me. She reported the quake as being very brief, whereas at my house the movement seemed longer than usual. Someone on the local fb group asked about the supposedly impending dust storm, but there have been no news reports or warnings that I've been able to find. Your view of that storm sounds very sci-fi, but it shouldn't affect your local air quality, should it? I've only seen one dramatic one, in Oklahoma years ago, and they're dangerous and scary.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 5, 2020 18:27:53 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 5, 2020 19:19:34 GMT
Hey, let's have more earthquakes then!
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 21, 2022 16:18:53 GMT
September 19th seems to be a bad day for earthquakes in Mexico. Even though this last one wasn't "bad" it still happened the same day as the severe quakes of 1985 and 2017.
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