There is no electricity in Mexicali and I dont know if my friends are well. The papers say that several buildings had collapsed. When in Mexicali, I observed that several buildings at the CETYS University campus were poorly built - I hope they didnt suffer damage.
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I'm sure your friends are OK - apparently the damage was very limited - only 1 person was killed by a building collapse. And given Mexican construction standards, that means the quake was not that severe. The Richter scale is a crude measure - there are many factors in an earthquake that lead to more or less structural damage for a given Richter # (and injuries imparted by structural failure is the main danger of a quake) - how deep the quake was, the local soil structure, etc. and luckily this was a less damaging kind of quake.
K
I received a few mails saying dont worry it was nothing. Still I wonder about those buildings in the campus. Some "green" architect used adobe (mud) to erect those 2 and 3 floor buildings.
I'll e-mail you some photos of the damage.
Thanks.
Just as an update to the Mexicali earthquake, Mexico is negotiating with the US to store its share of the Colorado River's water in the US Lake Mead reservoir. This little fact is contained in this article about halfway down.
Thanks Mark. The best solution would be to transfer the operation of the Mexicali Irrigation Districts to the Imperial Valley people. They are competent and honest. Mexico would benefit from it.
That is the story of Mexico.
The best solution would be to turn the operation of the Mexicali irrigation districts over to the private investors that formed those irrigation districts in the first place.
As far as I can tell most tribal water settlements in AZ are driven by weakness on the part of the White-run state government. If you read one of the comments on the article, the author of that comment points out how hard it is going to be to lay pipe to all of the houses on the Navajo reservation. The next commenter makes a joke about firewater.
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