California City Moved 31 Inches South By Major Earthquake!
June 28th, 2010 - 9:21 pm ICT by Angela Kaye MasonJune 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A major earthquake which rocked the Baja California area and the southwestern border of the United States back in April has actually moved one of California’s border cities, according to images from NASA radar.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck near Bajah on April 4, moving an entire city as much as two and a half feet south and further down into the ground. The earthquake, called the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake was centered at roughly 32 miles to the south/southeast of Calexico and was said to be the strongest earthquake to strike in that area in almost 120 years. There were two people killed and hundreds were injured.
This was not the first known case of a city being moved by an earthquake, not even the first this year. A massive earthquake measuring 8.8 struck Chile earlier in the year and moved the city of Conception at least 10 feet west of where it once stood. It was the fifth strongest quake which has ever been recorded.
Earthquakes literally redesign the planet over time. The city of San Fransisco moved about 2 inches towards the city of Los Angeles every year, and the two cities will meet in several million years. The length of a day on Earth can also be changed by a quake. The Chile quake shortened the days on Earth by 1.26 microseconds.
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