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Mexico quake: California lacks early warning system
Los Angeles Times
But California has struggled to develop and deploy an earthquake warning system that would give cities seconds of crucial time to prepare for the impact of a massive earthquake. California is spending only a fraction of what Japan and Mexico devoted to ...
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Mexico City residents to mega-quakes: We can handle it
Los Angeles Times
On Tuesday, riding through another big quake, it proved that it's a city that can take a punch. Tuesday's big earthquake was reported as the largest recorded in Mexico since the devastating 1985 earthquake, which left more than 10000 people dead.
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Better prepared: Mexico's 7.4 quake causes damage, but no deaths
MinnPost.com
Tuesday's earthquake was one of the strongest that residents have felt in the capital since the 1985 quake that killed some 10000, and still haunts many. Nearly 30 years later, yesterday's quake caused damage but killed no one, according to public ...
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Dozens homeless in western Mexico after huge quake
Reuters
By David Alire Garcia | PASO CUAULOTE (Reuters) - Dozens of families cleared rubble from their destroyed homes in southwestern Mexico on Wednesday following a major 7.4-magnitude earthquake that caused landslides, knocked down school walls and cracked ...
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Mexico City Buildings Shake in 5.2 Magnitude Quake
Bloomberg
Buildings in Mexico City shook in a 5.2-magnitude earthquake at 10:46 am local time, according the US Geological Survey. The epicenter was located 20 miles northwest of Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, the USGS said on its website.
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7.4 quake shakes Mexico City; no deaths reported
Southeast Missourian
In past years, Guerrero has suffered several severe earthquakes, including a 7.9 in 1957 that killed an estimated 68 people and a 7.4 in 1995 that left three dead. Tuesday's quake was the strongest shaking felt in the capital since a magnitude-6.5 ...
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Strong, long 7.6 quake shakes Mexico City
The Saratogian
MEXICO CITY — A strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, shaking central and southern parts of the country and swaying buildings in Mexico City. Plaster fell from ceilings and windows broke in the center of the capital, but the president ...
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Mexico Quake Damaged More Than 30000 Homes, El Universal Says
Bloomberg
Mexican officials said a 7.4- magnitude earthquake that struck March 20 damaged 30000 homes in the southern state of Guerrero and 2000 in Oaxaca, El Universal reported today. Guerrero Governor Angel Aguirre said that near the epicenter of the quake, ...
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Japan's Quake-Hit Northeast Region Has Record Land-Price Gains
Bloomberg
Land prices in Japan's northeastern region that were hurt by the March 11earthquake and tsunami last year gained the most in 2011 as residents sought to relocate, the land ministry's annual land price report showed. Nine of 10 sites that had the ...
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Strong Building Standards Play a Major Role in Limiting Injuries, Damage from ...
PR Web (press release)
Nine people were injured in Oaxaca and two in Mexico City. According to the US Geological Survey, the big earthquake's epicenter was in Guerrero state, just outside Acapulco, Mexico. The quake was felt as far as 200 miles away in Mexico City.
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Quake hits Mexico, but apparently spares lives
San Antonio Express
AP People gather at the El Zocalo square in Mexico City after a strong quakehit Mexico on March 20, 2012. A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Mexico, causing residents in the capital several hundred miles away to rush out onto the ...
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Hundreds homes damaged in Mexico quake
International News Network
Tourists and residents also felt the earthquake in the resort city of Acapulco, located about 100 miles (200 km) from the quake's epicenter. Calderon said that there were no immediate reports of serious damage, and that the nation's health system was ...
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7.4-magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico, hundreds of homes damaged
Joliet Herald News
That quake was originally measured at 8.1, but is now put by the US Geological Survey at 8.0. In past years, Guerrero has suffered several severeearthquakes, including a 7.9 in 1957 which killed an estimated 68 people, and a 7.4 in 1995 which left ...
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Mexico assesses damage after 7.4 earthquake
Today's THV
MEXICO (CBS) -- Mexico remains on high alert after a major earthquakestruck on Tuesday (March 21) damaging hundreds of homes and rattling scores of residents in the southern states of Oaxaca and Guerrero. A 7.4-magnitude quake shook the small southern ...
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Mexico quake damages homes but spares lives
BP News
The earthquake was centered near the municipality of Ometepec in southern Mexico's Guerrero state, about 100 miles from Acapulco and 200 miles from Mexico City. IMB missionary Orpha Ortega was in her home in Mexico City when the quake struck.
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Officials survey damage after strong quake jolts Mexico
WDIV Detroit
Cars can't get through because of the earthquake yesterday. Dirt is blocking the roads." The massive quake sent broken tiles and pieces of buildings falling onto sidewalks as far away as Mexico City, about 200 miles (320 km) from the epicenter.
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Few injuries despite strength of Mexico earthquake
KTUU.com
The magnitude 7.4 quake topples rural houses near the epicenter, in Guerrero state, and cracks buildings in Mexico City. By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times A powerful and prolonged earthquake rocked Mexico on Tuesday, toppling houses near the ...
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7.4 quake shakes Mexico
Pioneer Press
One of the strongest quakes since the deadly 1985 temblor that killed thousands in Mexico City, Tuesday's earthquake hit hardest in border areas of southern Oaxaca and Guerrero states, where Guerrero officials confirmed that some 800 homes had been ...
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California unlike other areas, lacks earthquake early warning system
Coast News
But experts said it would cost approximately $150 million to build and $5 million a year to operate a system covering California and other quake-prone states along the Pacific.Japan's system cost $1 billion to build and includes 1000 GPS sensors used ...
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