The California Mexico border was rocked by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake on June 14, 2010 at 9:26 p.m. that rattled nerves from San Diego north to Orange County and Los Angeles.
THE CALIFORNIA Mexico border was rocked by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake on June 14, 2010 at 9:26 p.m. that rattled nerves from San Diego north to Orange County and Los Angeles.
The U.S Geological survey said in a statement, the earthquake was centered 5 miles southeast of Ocotillo in Imperial country and 85 miles east of San Diego.Egill Hauksson, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena said, it was an aftershock of the deadly Easter Sunday magnitude 7.2 earthquake that shook Baja California and Southern California, striking in the same zone of the quake in April.
Thousands of aftershocks have occurred since the Easter earthquake. More than 100 aftershocks were recorded immediately following Monday’s 5.7 quake with the largest measuring magnitude of 4.5.Hauksson added that “An earthquake with the magnitude of 5.7 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.” The quake was felt as a gentle rolling motion in the Los Angeles area. San Diego’s Petco Park was also influenced during the quake, causing a momentary pause at the Toronto blue Jays- San Diego Padres baseball game. The public address announcer asked to everyone remains calm. The earthquake followed a series of temblors that hit South California over the weekend, including a pair of moderate earthquakes that troubled a desert area of east of San Diego.