Mexicali is located in the area where the Baja peninsula will break

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all the Eq on this page that says Baja California Mexico happen in Mexicali.

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translation babelfish to English


Panic in Mexicali; an earthquake per hour They detect damages in buildings and schools. It follows the alert red.


In spite of the call of the authorities to maintain the calm, the nervousness and the tension they reign in this border, in where the population makes purchases of panic, after than 30 earthquakes registered the more in the course of yesterday.
In the supermarket stores the demand of water was increased, nonperecederos foods, lanterns, among other useful articles in case of facing a contingency.
The suspension of classes affects more than 250 thousand students, is a labor absenteeism of around of 50% and the cinemas are closed.

In the State Capital people only speak of "magno earthquake" that will be and of that it says will surpass the 7 degrees.
This, even though the authorities emit communicated constants in which they call to the calm and they explain that it is not possible to predict earthquakes.
More than 180 earthworks that have been detected from Friday, in agreement with the Department of Sismology of the Scientific Research center and of Superior Education of Ensenada (CICESE), they have caused that the common subject of the conversations is: "I feel been annoying and I do not sleep".
In the laboratory of the CICESE one was that one is a "seismic cluster" little frequents, because they have surpassed the 5 degrees in the scale of Richter.
At the beginning of 1993 a similar situation appeared and lasted near a month.
The authorities of the directions of Municipal and State Civil defense maintain the alert red.
The seats of the local Congress and the Judicial Power, as well as state and municipal offices are inspected, because in some buildings deep cracks were located.
The SEP announced the revision of schools, after being detected in Mexicali 38 establishments with severe damages.
In Tijuana there is preoccupation by the situation that is lived in the State Capital. In Cove and Beaches of Rosarito they have not perceived the tremors, only in Tecate.