Personal Blog #7: Recent Earthquakes in last 24 Hours

This video below is awesome it reminds me of the extreme events lab a little bit because of how the guy’s screen looked and was displaying the information about the last 12 hours.  It is a cool way to show where the earthquakes are happening in the world.  There was an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 in the South Sandwich Islands which is off the southeastern coast of South America.  There was also an earthquake of a 6.5 magnitude about 100 miles away from Mexico City which I wrote about below this paragraph.  There were also two more earthquakes that were in the Pacific region a 3.7 in Hawaii and a 5.8 in Japan.  This was all within the last 24 hours, there might be more to come but so far no tsunami warning.  At least our Tsunami warning technology centers are well equipped and can warn areas of the world in a matter of seconds. 

When I woke up this morning I turned my TV on, I saw that there was an earthquake that rattled Mexico on Saturday.  The earthquake was a 6.5 magnitude which killed two people and knocking out lights in parts of the capital and sent people running into the streets to see what was damaged and who might need to be saved.  The two individuals who were reportedly killed were killed by something falling on top of them.  The one a roof collapsed on him and the other a rock fell on a small van on the Mexico City-Acapulco highway. 

Residents of the port city of Acapulco felt the earthquake and telephone services were down, there were no reports of major damage.  To me this is a rare occurrence kind of like the earthquake that hit the United States a few months back, not much damage was caused just a few places shook pretty good but not a lot of destruction.  There was an earthquake in 1985 that killed tens of thousands of people with a magnitude of 8.1 which makes the one that happened on Saturday look like nothing especially when you look at the death tolls, Saturday’s quake took 3 lives as a FoxNews report says and the 1985 had 10,000 plus. 

I believe that our detection system for tsunamis is superb, it saves many lives and is probably why there are fewer deaths due to tsunamis in the last 15 years than the previous 15 years because of the kinds of technology that the weather guessers use to monitor the oceans and seas.  This helps keep people safe by having a warning system, like Hawaii has a bunch of sirens that go off to warn people to get away from the ocean and beaches.