We Send our Prayers to the Mexicali Earthquake Victims

A 7.2 major earthquake struck Mexicali about 30 miles from Baja, California on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010. It's shaking was felt all the way to San Diego, California to the west and as far east as Phoenix, Arizona. Damage was widespread but minimal for a quake of its size, depth and power. Thank God for His loving mercy. Many people suffered damage to their homes and some people lost their lives. Our prayers go out to all who were touched or affected by this earthquake.


According to the latest report, two people died in Easter's quake and damage to structures occurred on both sides of the Mexico/America border. Buildings reportedly shook from San Diego to Las Vegas, Nevada. People in Phoenix, Arizona tweeted that they felt the shaking, too. A separate quake struck San Diego that was about a 6 on the rhicter scale. This earthquake was greater in magnitude than the one in Chile, but it caused less damage and very little loss of life compared to potential disaster it could have wreaked. It is summised that the depth, location and rural areas close to the epicenter reduced the size of this tragedy.

A geologist gives a lucid explanation of this earthquake based upon information available at this time. Studies are being conducted to determine which fault triggered this quake since the region in question is the center for a cluster of faults that merge. Here is the video if you want to know what seismologists/geologists are saying.