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Spanish to English translation
Compare swarm earthquakes to that experienced in 2008
MEXICALI, Baja California (PH)
The director of Civil Protection in the state, Alfredo Escobedo Ortiz, compared the events of recent days earthquakes with seismic swarm in Feb. 2008 in the state capital, and indicated that continues the color alert yellow.
"Yellow is a kind of pre-alert. We are right now as a kind of swarming, much like what we experienced in February 2008, (which were) three weeks of seismic activity. Right now we are more or less in that pattern, "he said.
Escobedo asked the public to stay alert, but calm, and take anticipatory actions such as the support gas tanks on the wall, to avoid the possibility of a fire.
Back to tremble, now 4.5 degrees
An earthquake measuring 4.5 degrees on Richter scale with epicenter at 13 kilometers from the town Guadalupe Victoria, Sunday morning rocked the state capital, Mexicali Valley and the surrounding San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora.
The quake took place at 11:34 hours, and occurred in the same area where the quake originated from 5.1 on the Richter scale, recorded last Friday morning.
From Sunday 13, in that sector has nine movements occurred more than three on the Richter scale, four of which have happened in the past 48 hours.
The quake caused no casualties or significant damage to regret. The event is not prompted the evacuation of shopping malls such as Plaza La Cachanilla, but the General Hospital, which was evacuated after the quake.
Corrected magnitude
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) corrected twice the magnitude of the seismic event registered on Sunday morning.
Initially, the U.S. agency assigned the motion intensity of 4.5 on the Richter scale, but an hour later corrected on the rise and put the magnitude at 5.0 degrees.
However, about 40 minutes later, scientists at the U.S. dependence corrected again and assigned to the earthquake intensity with which he had originally qualified: 4.5 degrees. The General Hospital was partially evacuated after the movement of 4.5 degrees on the Richter scale yesterday.
Spanish to English translation
Compare swarm earthquakes to that experienced in 2008
MEXICALI, Baja California (PH)
The director of Civil Protection in the state, Alfredo Escobedo Ortiz, compared the events of recent days earthquakes with seismic swarm in Feb. 2008 in the state capital, and indicated that continues the color alert yellow.
"Yellow is a kind of pre-alert. We are right now as a kind of swarming, much like what we experienced in February 2008, (which were) three weeks of seismic activity. Right now we are more or less in that pattern, "he said.
Escobedo asked the public to stay alert, but calm, and take anticipatory actions such as the support gas tanks on the wall, to avoid the possibility of a fire.
Back to tremble, now 4.5 degrees
An earthquake measuring 4.5 degrees on Richter scale with epicenter at 13 kilometers from the town Guadalupe Victoria, Sunday morning rocked the state capital, Mexicali Valley and the surrounding San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora.
The quake took place at 11:34 hours, and occurred in the same area where the quake originated from 5.1 on the Richter scale, recorded last Friday morning.
From Sunday 13, in that sector has nine movements occurred more than three on the Richter scale, four of which have happened in the past 48 hours.
The quake caused no casualties or significant damage to regret. The event is not prompted the evacuation of shopping malls such as Plaza La Cachanilla, but the General Hospital, which was evacuated after the quake.
Corrected magnitude
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) corrected twice the magnitude of the seismic event registered on Sunday morning.
Initially, the U.S. agency assigned the motion intensity of 4.5 on the Richter scale, but an hour later corrected on the rise and put the magnitude at 5.0 degrees.
However, about 40 minutes later, scientists at the U.S. dependence corrected again and assigned to the earthquake intensity with which he had originally qualified: 4.5 degrees. The General Hospital was partially evacuated after the movement of 4.5 degrees on the Richter scale yesterday.