Los Angeles (Reuters - A strong earthquake shook south-east of the southern California city of Tijuana on Sunday afternoon, damaging buildings in the border towns and threatened the population seismic, advanced as far north as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Chandeliers swayed, shook houses and the earth seems to be sliding under the feet of people emerging from the services of the Church of the Resurrection for more than a minute as the quake shook the U.S. in Mexico and the United States.
The earthquake, 7.2 only after the local time 3:30, and was centered 16 miles to the south and south-west of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico, about 108 miles east-southeast of Tijuana, according to the Geological Survey in the United States.
Carlton and Hargrave (64 years) stands at the entrance of the family style buffet in Calexico, a town on the border of California, when the quake struck. The restaurant owner, said in a telephone interview, was "almost completely destroyed. We have tables overturned, broken plates on the ground."
"The roof collapsed which was great. I mean it was great," said a shaky voice and the voice of his feet crunching the rubble and fragments of glass and plate.
Reports from a remote area in Mexico where he was beaten by the quake was slow, and it is burdened with the Mexican sites on the Internet in the hours after the shaking, but an earthquake of this size would likely major property damage, injuries and perhaps to anything or anyone near and experts said the quake's epicenter .
A reporter at the Tijuana newspaper Frontera, who did not want to be named, said there were no reports of damage or injuries but told reporters that there is awaiting definitive word from the authorities.
El Imparcial, a newspaper in the state of Sonora, south of Arizona, said the cracks in residential buildings in Mexicali and burst pipes, but the damage does not seem very.
The shake is particularly acute in San Diego, where the earthquake had raised several concerns, and sent the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department out on several calls, according to the Web site San Diego Union-Tribune.
"We have some reports of scattered damage to property," said Ramona Hastings, a sergeant assigned to watch it in the Ministry of San Diego police, in a telephone interview. Among the reports and the bombing of several pipelines, including at least one under the house, and damaging an apartment building of three floors.
In Los Angeles, houses slid from side to side for more than a minute, and a nasty wave of an endless it seems, which can be seen from the beach to the Hollywood Hills. Twitter has quickly filled with reports from the border to Phoenix to Los Angeles.
"People were crying outside because the packages appeared to be on its way to the collapse and the disintegration of the wall (along with the various things that fall), and the power cuts in some areas," read one message from Calexico. In the Empire, California, another city on the border, Eslibonita tweeted], "are still going on .... and fell on my dresser and my half of my fish tank water on the carpet is my country."
The quake occurred about 6.2 miles below the surface of the earth, and considered in the shallow depth by the experts. 7.2 earthquake has the potential to cause substantial damage, including destruction of building structures and the window, hit the ground and led to landslides. It can also be more water than most places, the banks of the river and rail can be bent.
Reported at least five aftershocks possible, including the earthquake 4.5 on the Richter scale struck 62 miles east of Tijuana, said at 4:09 pm, an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale near the Empire, California, at 4:15 pm Earthquake 3.8 on the Richter scale was also reported 12 miles northwest of Hot Springs Jacumba, California, at 4:19 an earthquake 3.6 on the Richter scale at a distance of 7 miles northeast of Julian, California, at 4: 22. It was reported that the quake 4.3 on the Richter scale, about 15 miles southwest of Calixico, California, at 4:34 pm, the earthquake magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale, said 14 miles to the south and south-west of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, 4 pm : 37
Officials urged residents in emergency situations to communicate with each other using text messages to maintain the signals of mobile phones and clear emergency workers to respond to distress calls.
The viewer CNN boat in the port of San Diego and began rocking the quake, which began shaking the foundations for several seconds.
Earthquake affected areas quickly again. In Century City, KABC-TV reported that a woman was trapped in an elevator in the city of the century. At the airport in Los Angeles, said some passengers CNN that they had felt the rumbling and they were worried that it may be delayed flights.
The people in Arizona and Nevada, a sense of earthquakes. "My family and I live in Gilbert, Arizona, and we can feel the house shaking and blessing to us and go against its aspects," said Donald Whiting. "I'm not sure how far we are from the epicenter, but this was not surprising Los Angeles felt this one."
Derrick Henry contributed reporting from New York City.
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