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SAN DIEGO—The U.S.-Mexico border has been rocked by a magnitude-5.7 earthquake that rattled nerves in a region still recovering from the deadly Easter jolt.
The quake struck at 9:26 p.m. PT Monday about 137 kilometres east of San Diego, or 8 kilometres southeast of Ocotillo in California’s Imperial County, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
It was an aftershock of the deadly Easter Sunday magnitude-7.2 quake that shook Baja California and Southern California, striking in the same zone, said Egill Hauksson, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
“Aftershocks can go on for months and years,” he said.
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 at magnitude-4.5.
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake “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,” Hauksson said.
No significant damage from Monday’s quake was reported to either the San Diego County Office of Emergency Services or the Imperial County board of supervisors.
San Diego’s Petco Park swayed during the quake, causing a momentary pause at the Toronto Blue Jays-San Diego Padres baseball game. The public address announcer asked that everyone remain calm. The crowd cheered.
The quake was felt as a gentle rolling motion in the Los Angeles area.
It followed a series of temblors that struck Southern California over the weekend, including a pair of moderate earthquakes that rattled a desert area east of San Diego.
reminds me of the documentry on CBC about earthquake, and how most buildings in vanc, are only supported from the middle, no exterior support. Anybody watch??
i once heard from the fire fighter saying if there is a big one hits vancouver, the shattered glasses from all the building in downtown would be like 2 stories high
you will probably be buried under all the building and the glasses, thats a painful way to die
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