Mexican earthquake....7.2

[spindrift]

..... and I am worried about Bixa and Don Cuevas

Bixa?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1263606/Earthquake-Mexico-felt-Los-Angeles.html

[Don Cuevas]

No problema aquí. I was unaware of it until I read your post. The epicenter was very far from us and even farther from Bixa.

Thanks for inquiring.

[spindrift]

That's great. I thought you lived close to Bixa's town.

[Deleted]

The earthquake was near the California border, since Mexicali and Calexico were the towns that reported some damage.

[Don Cuevas]

Let me see if I can locate a map of Mexico for you.



The earthquake epicenter was inland, north of the "G" in "Gulf of California.

The Cuevas' hacienda is approximately midway between Guadalajara and Mexico City.
THe Bixa Oaxacan village is well, near Oaxaca, far to the southeast.

Here's another map. with scale:


Further studies here, in preparation for Friday's exam:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Mexico

[Deleted]

I always thought that Wahaca was somewhere in London.

[bixaorellana]

Here I am! Don Cuevas has already explained our geographic locations, but here is a very simplified map with a very big arrow pointing to Oaxaca. I live just south of the city. Don C lives in the area around the black dot above the -ex- in Mexico City.



Re: Wahaca ~~ I want to immodestly point out that I inaugurated the Bombay videos so beloved of certain forum members with my brilliant documentary of dining and pronunciation on the now defunct ttr.

[spindrift]

Thanks... I have taken note. I always knew where Wahaca was...I (wrongly) presumed the Don lived fairly nearby since occasionally he seems to share meals with the ladies down south.

[bjd]

We had a Mexican friend stay with us for the past 4 days and he said that when we come to visit him in Mexico, we should go to Oaxaca because it's a beautiful place.

[bixaorellana]

And just think ~~ you have someone you can visit in Oaxaca!

Bjd, with your "feel" for Latin America, I think you'd love it here. Even in the city and its environs, there is still a strong indigenous presence and a good bit of variety amongst towns.

[bjd]

Yes, Bixa -- I thought of that. But it's not on for a while -- he is living in a small apartment with his wife and kids in Mexico City right now but is trying to arrange to buy a bigger place.
Actually, when my husband was a postdoc in Austin, Texas, he went to Oaxaca and that area. He told us about a little fiesta he ran into by accident in Mitla, where he was the only tourist. This was in 1978 though.

[fumobici]

In the '70s everybody knew how to say Oaxaca even though nobody knew what or where it was!

[bixaorellana]

And you can still get a t-shirt with a portrait of the reason why!

[cristina]

FWIW, the earthquake was felt here in Phoenix. I was apparently not paying attention, however a friend who lives about 10 miles east of me reported that his light fixtures were swinging... a lot.

[bixaorellana]

Well, that's alarming!

The degree to which an earthquake is felt depends on the terrain. That's probably why some parts of a town sustain much more damage than other parts. I'm in the foothills here, apparently on bedrock, & I don't feel many tremors. However, the house where I lived in 1999 was on an old river bed and fairly danced during quakes. I wasn't in the house during the big earthquake that year (Sept. 30, 7.5 magnitude), but when I got home that evening, things in the china closet had been hurled across the room.

[Deleted]

Well, today's event was in Sumatra. Other side of the world.