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Baja California state capital Mexicali was reported by Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) Director General Alfredo Elías Ayub as being without electricity. [28] There were at least two fatalities in Mexicali, [29] one of which was caused by a collapsed house. [30] [31] At least 100 people were injured in Mexicali and its suburbs. [29]
The 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake occurred at 16:16 Pacific Daylight Time (23:16 UTC) on 15 October just south of the Mexico–United States border.It affected Imperial Valley in Southern California and Mexicali Valley in northern Baja California.
Heavy damage occurred in the areas of Mexicali and El Centro, amounting to $900,000. At least six people were killed in the earthquakes. [2] In November, the area was struck by another larger shock, measuring M w 7.0 centered in Cerro Prieto, Baja California, Mexico.
The quake — preceded by Thursday's 6.4-magnitude temblor in the Mojave Desert — was the largest Southern California temblor in at least 20 years and was followed by a series of large and small ...
The Baja California peninsula lies near the boundary of the Pacific plate and the North American plate, while southern Mexico lies just north of the boundary between the North American plate and the Cocos and Rivera tectonic plates. The Cocos plate is subducting under the North American plate at a rate of 67 mm (0.220 ft) per year, while the ...
The temblor was the most powerful to rattle the state since a 7.1-magnitude quake hit Ridgecrest in 2019. Its intensity shocked Starkey and many of the 5.3 million other people along nearly 500 miles (805 kilometers) of the California and Oregon coasts who were under the tsunami warning for about an hour. It was lifted after no major waves arrived.
The 1987 Superstition Hills earthquake affected the Imperial Valley of California and Baja California on November 24, nearly 12 hours after a M w 6.0 foreshock, called the Elmore Ranch earthquake. The mainshock , measuring M w 6.5, struck at 17:54 PST, along the Superstition Hills segment of the San Jacinto Fault Zone .
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