Food for thought...

Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist
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There was a large earthquake in Mexico today (Sep 19)

Details are still coming in. The recent one in Chiapas damaged 1,600 schools and numerous homes. There were very few collapses for an 8+ and an extremely low death toll due to reasonable, (and affordable) building requirements. In Mexico, it is all brick and concrete with the rule being that reinforcements must be placed at regular intervals. They sell the reinforcements at Home Depot, and even at the high prices Home Depot has relative to elsewhere, the steel reinforcement columns (welded in a box shape) that is usually 15 centimeters across and 10 meters long costs less than $10, and most houses don't need more than 10 of those. They really reduce collapses, as the recent earthquake in Chiapas shows, but they can't stop cracking which still happened everywhere.

I don't expect a lot of deaths from the latest earthquake, which ranged anywhere between 7.1 and 7.5, but there will be a lot of stucco work to do. For reference on how well Mexico is built, the recent earthquake in Chiapas killed 83 people, and was an 8.1. The San Francisco earthquake of 1989 (loma Pri(e)ta earthquake) was a 7.1 and killed 57 people. Both happened near heavily populated areas. Unlike what trolls say, Mexico's construction is not bad, unlike Haiti where a 7.1 killed 230,000 in 2010(according to Haitian government stats). Mexico is built like a first world country. So I don't expect today's quake to have done much.

The reports say this happened 71 miles outside of Mexico City, which means it was still in the city because everything reaches out that far. I felt nothing where I am, and was only wondering why the internet quit working (obviously now that I am back online it went out due to being overwhelmed by families trying to contact each other)

Important to note: This quake happened on the anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City quake that was very bad. So there is little doubt that Mexicans, who are already questioning how an earthquake happened during Irma, will seriously question this earthquake happening on the anniversary date of the prior huge Mexico city quake. Mexicans are well aware of man made disasters, so this will be something to pay attention to.

BLOCKBUSTER UPDATE: There was an earthquake drill underway in Mexico City when this quake struck! Just like the Chiapas quake of 2012. This may well have been a warning from the new world order. Of equal importance is initially the depth was reported at 10 KM, but got cha(n)ged to 51 KM. This could be to cover up it being man made.

UPDATE: NO FORESHOCKS AND NO AFTERSHOCKS, A HALLMARK OF MAN MADE QUAKES.

1985 Earthquake shakes Mexico City
This Day In History
Sep 19
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On this day in 1985, a powerful earthquake strikes Mexico City and leaves 10,000 people dead, 30,000 injured and thousands more homeless.

At 7:18 in the morning, the residents of Mexico City were jolted awake by an 8.1-magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest to ever hit the area.