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Earthquake Moved California City 31 Inches

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  The powerful earthquake that struck Baja California and the southwestern United States in April actually moved an entire California border city, NASA radar images show.
  Calexico, Calif., near the U.S.-Mexico border, moved as much as 2 1/2 feet (80 cm) south and down into the ground due to the magnitude-7.2 earthquake on April 4.
  Called the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, the temblor was centered 32 miles (52 km) south-southeast of Calexico and was the strongest quake to strike the region in nearly 120 years. Two people were killed and hundreds more were injured.
  Shaking and moving
  It's not the first time a town has moved. The massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile earlier this year moved the city of Concepción at least 10 feet (3 meters) to the west. That quake was the fifth most powerful temblor in recorded history.
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  NASA researchers are currently working to determine how far north the fault rupture that caused the quake may have reached.
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  Earthquake moved California city 31 inches (VIDEO) Data reveal the earthquake moved the Calexico, Calif., region in a downward and southerly direction approximately 31
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  The newly released maps from NASA are hard to decipher, but are available here. (c) UPI
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  Q: Will California eventually fall off into the ocean?

  A: No. The San Andreas Fault System, which crosses California from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, is the boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. The Pacific Plate is moving northwest with respect to the North American Plate at approximately 46 millimeters per year (the rate your fingernails grow). The strike-slip earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault are a result of this plate motion. The plates are moving horizontally past one another, so California is not going to fall into the ocean. However, Los Angeles and San Francisco will one day be adjacent to one another!
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  California Island won't be popping up on any maps. Much of California does lie along the San Andreas Fault, an 800-mile fracture in the Earth's crust stretching from the Gulf of California to San Francisco. Here two immense plates of rock, floating on a semi-molten layer, meet and move against each other in what's called a strike-slip fault. The stress caused by this movement can result in devastating earthquakes, like the 1906 quake that destroyed much of San Francisco.
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  But the motion between these two rock masses beneath the Golden State is mostly horizontal. That is, the Pacific plate is moving "up" the coast, not away from the North American plate, at a rate of dozens of millimeters per year.
  So in several million years, residents of San Francisco will see the L.A. skyline out their

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clipped from www.foxnews.com The California-Mexico border region was rocked by a magnitude-5.7 quake Monday, rattling nerves from San Diego north to Orange County and Los Angeles. SAN DIEGO -- The California-Mexico border region was rocked by a magnitude-5.7 quake Monday, rattling nerves from San Diego north to Orange County and Los Angeles. The quake was an aftershock of the deadly Easter Sunday magnitude-7.2 quake that shook Baja California and Southern California, said Egill Hauksson, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He said the epicenter of Monday's quake occurred in the same zone of the quake in April. Thousands of aftershocks have occurred since the Easter earthquake. At least 45 aftershocks were recorded immediately following Monday's 5.7 quake, with the largest measuring at magnitude-4.5. A 5.7-magnitude earthquake "could break windows, it could throw things on the floor, it could create cracks on the wall, but we don't expect things to collapse," Hauksson said.

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7.2 Earthquake footage you won't get from mainstream media

clipped from www.youtube.com I wanna give thanks and recognition to fellow citizen journalists! Keep doing what you are doing! Mainstream media hasn't even talked about all the damage in the imperial Valley! Mexicali quake forces U.S. officials to close northbound border in Calexico April 5, 2010 | 7:42 am The northbound border into Calexico, Calif., from Mexicali, Mexico, remained closed Monday morning because of concerns about damage to the U.S. federal building, but people continued to stream into the U.S. on foot as aftershocks rattled the region. A day after a 7.2 earthquake struck the Mexican border town of Mexicali, residents on both sides of the country line remained jittery. Although cars were prohibited from crossing north, people walked over the border to flee Mexicali. Traffic was slow Monday morning along westbound Interstate 8 in El Centro as Caltrans checked for problems on the freeway that may have been caused by the earthquake.

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Magnitude 6.9 - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

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Magnitude 7.2
Date-Time

* Sunday, April 04, 2010 at 22:40:40 UTC
* Sunday, April 04, 2010 at 03:40:40 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

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• Magnitude 6.9 - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

  "Magnitude 6.9
  

• Date-Time * Sunday, April 04, 2010 at 22:40:39 UTC * Sunday, April 04, 2010 at 03:40:39
  

• PM at epicenter *
  

• Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 32.093°N, 115.249°W Depth 32.3 km (20.1 miles) Region BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO Distances
  

•  * 26 km (16 miles) SSW (211°) from Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico * 61 km (38 miles) SW (227°) from San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, Mexico
  

•  * 64 km (40 miles) SW (225°) from San Luis, AZ
  

•  * 173 km (108 miles) ESE (106°) from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.8 km (3.6 miles); depth +/- 21.1 km (13.1 miles)
  

• Parameters Nph=014, Dmin=76 km, Rmss=0.2 sec, Gp=292°, M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=1 Source

•  * California Integrated Seismic Net: * USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR Event ID ci14607652"

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