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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.
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 ...
Collapsed buildings in Imperial, California, in which four people died. The earthquake was the result of a rupture along the Imperial Fault, with its epicenter 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Calexico, California. [3] A strong secondary earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 followed a little more than an hour after the mainshock and was centered near ...
Six people died and several were injured in the second quake at Mexicali, located just inside the Mexican border. Unstable banks of the New and Alamo Rivers caved in many places. 1940 El Centro earthquake; 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake; 2010 Baja California earthquake
Mexico, Baja California offshore, 97 km (60 mi) north of San Luis: 6.2 10.0 ... power outages and ground cracks appeared in the Mexicali area. [272] - - 31 [273]
At Mexicali, Baja California, windows broke and lights went out at a sheriff office. Landslides occurred at Sage. Grocery stores in Riverside suffered huge losses from fallen bottled products. [17] The RMS Queen Mary, which was docked at Long Beach rocked for five minutes. [22]
The auditorium was badly damaged in the magnitude 7.2 Baja California earthquake. [2] The auditorium, built in 1985, received international attention as the venue for the final boxing match to have been scheduled for 15 rounds, which took place on August 4, 1988, a match broadcast on USA Tuesday Night Fights .