Major earthquake strikes Mexico

[flybynight]

Major earthquake strikes Mexico for 3rd time on same date since 1985, this time a magnitude 7.6; 1 dead


https://news.yahoo.com/major-earthquake-strikes-mexico-3rd-205509764.html

[NT2C]

Not for nothing but that sounds like someone rolling over in their grave on the anniversary of some unknown event.

[flybynight]

Or a foreboding

[Optimist]

I didn't know about there being three major earthquakes on the same date. That's pretty wild.

A friend of ours got to Mexico and was in the area when this happened. She said it was the strongest earthquake she's ever been in, and she's spent a lot of time in Alaska and California.

[flybynight]

I didn't know about there being three major earthquakes on the same date. That's pretty wild.

A friend of ours got to Mexico and was in the area when this happened. She said it was the strongest earthquake she's ever been in, and she's spent a lot of time in Alaska and California.

Ok so I compare with all the stronger ones I experienced while living in Cali for 50 years.  The strongest felt motion was Northridge That I heard aptly described as "trying to stay upright with feet wide apart " Or " The last thing I saw before the lights went out was the ceiling falling down on me "
  To tell the truth, none of these were anyway near as bad both in visual shaking and damage. Even though they were bigger by measurement on the Richter scale. I guess Northridge had more ground motion. It was a violent up/down, side to side. Like the ground was shaken by a giant rabid bear. Man, just talking about it I can hear it in my mind.
  As an aside. The Anchoridge earthquake in 1964 was a 9. something and lasted for almost five minutes.  I can't even imagine that

[NT2C]

Just an FYI, they stopped using the Richter scale (M_L) some years ago in favor of other magnitude scales such as moment Magnitude (M_W).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale