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I'm glad you're all here.
Thank you for joining me.
Sending prayers there to Guatemala.
At about 11:25 p.m..
Pacific Standard Time, there was a magnitude 6.2 earthquake
there in the city of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala.
367 people reportedly felt this earthquake and
USGS gave an intensity level of eight.
Now, the Mexican Seismological government station said
it was off the coast of Guatemala.
And they also have a magnitude 4.9.
Just a little while later here we have
a Twitter post that was translated says after
a strong 6.2 earthquake and a 4.9 Nueva Concepción
Guatemala, Con read reports damage in
seven departments, seven locations, I guess.
Landslide, obstructions Highway, Antigua, Guatemala, to the capital,
damage to homes and power cuts in Church.
There is another Twitter post.
This man is picking up some
of the boulders from the road.
This right here is one very
large boulder that rolled out.
I don't know if it's a highway or what it
looks like, too, that the highway cracked right there.
There's a still captured from that video.
You can see more rocks here.
And it's still of a crushed vehicle.
And you can see the roof here.
Another Twitter post showing the debris in the road
and another post of a wall that collapsed.
You see the debris down there in the sidewalk.
And another image, debris there there
and going down the road.
And another image.
One looks like a canopy, metal roof
that fell off and onto the car.
More images here.
It looks like the roof of the
building collapsed or could be a wall.
You can see some trees behind here.
And another Twitter post showing more damage
right on top of the car.
There's also a video here showing cracks that go
through the wall and then up the stairs.
All the plaster a little blurry, but this
is the stairs with debris on it.
And another image, evidently it's from
these villages that's listed here.
Another road closed off.
And then over here is the translation of the post.
It says falling walls and structures, landslides and
route to Antigua, the Inter American Highway.
And I'm not going to try and pronounce
the other names going to Google Earth.
It's been a while since
they've had anything this large.
2016, a 6.1 up over here, 76.
7.5.
So going in, zooming into Google Earth. Yeah.
Here's the location that USGS
says the earthquake occurred.
It was deep, 51 miles in depth.
All earthquakes are measured from sea level.
What we have here is a South American
trench subducting under and moving towards the Caribbean.
In 2017, there was a magnitude 8.1.
Now that was a rupture of the entire
plate, meaning the entire plate cracked going down
to the mantle of the Earth.
97 reports on Emse.
This 134 kilometers northwest from where it
occurred said that they were scared.
All dogs started to bark.
So that would be 21 miles northwest.
Strong earthquake, very scared. Woke us up.
They were sleeping.
They were 45 km northwest, which
would be about 28 miles.
Felt something strong with replicas.
There was after shocks.
Another one was lightly sleeping.
Could not believe how powerful the quake was. Strongest.
In my three years living in
Guatemala, this was no five.
We're talking six.
Another one said it sounded like a freight train.
Then some movement followed by a very strong jolt woke
us up to shaking up two to 3 seconds. It was strong.
The bed shook me awake.
The dogs were startled, barking quite a bit.
Then they joined me in the bed.
Yeah, they were scared, too.
This one here says it lasted 15 to
20 seconds, another 115 to 20 seconds.
Shaking was visible and lasted a few seconds.
Enough time to get up and walk
to a safer place before it stopped.
Yeah, very strong.
Woke up in the hotel room in
Antigua at 100 and 15:00 A.m.
Eastern Standard time.
Well, actually I think that yeah, that
would be Eastern Standard Time because it
was 1115 Pacific Standard time.
Walls, light fixtures and belongings
on night stand were shaking.
Lasted a couple of minutes.
Heavy lateral shaking lasted about 10 seconds.
No evacuation of the hotel was
needed or requested rolling quake.
Things fell over in my house.
Very strong.
Was too strong.
Short, but enough to get me out of bed.
Strong shaking lasted about two minutes.
They're saying there 100 and 17:00 A.m..
That would be central daylight time.
Let's see.
Strong shake. Another one.
Strong shake.
Strong, long lasting wave movement.
Felt like a wave.
I was lying down in bed upwards.
Very strong and stretched out.
Felt very strong.
In the capital city.
It is long and hard.
Long enough to wake up and leave the bed ready to run.
They're lucky it was so deep.
One mirror broke in my house.
It was a good one.
It waked me up.
I was sleeping.
A report from El Salvador said
mild but intense and Holy key.
Another report from El Salvador.
Very strong shaking.
Kind of slow, but moved a lot.
Very sensitive earthquake.
The electricity cable suede the
walls and furniture Creek.
Two more reports from El Salvador.
So that would be about 140 miles east.
It says here was significant. Woke us up.
It was short, but quite loud.
And they heard it.
More reports from El Salvador.
Very long and felt enough to wake us up.
So USGS has three earthquakes listed, unless you
want to count this one down here. That happened before.
Then that was a 4.4.
We also got a 4.5 and a 4.1.
The 4.48 people said they felt that
one that was in El Salvador.
The 4.5 was in Guatemala.
Five people said they felt that one.
So here we have the felt reports.
Over here is El Salvador.
And there's what intensity level?
Eight, which means it shook for about 20 to 30 seconds.
Damaged slight and specially designed structures.
Considerable in ordinary sustainable buildings with
partial collapse in some buildings great
and poorly built structures.
Panel walls thrown out of frame structure falling
chimneys, factory stacks, columns, monuments and walls, heavy
furniture, overturned sand and mud ejection bow holes
in small amounts, changes in well water.
Persons driving the car would have
noticed more images of damage.
It looks like we got a power line
down here along with some large boulders.
Another car crushed a daylight image of a car and
debris from that one building and images of them cleaning
up the debris with a backhoe and by hand.
There's one of the images cleaning up
as they're carrying weapons just shows you
how dangerous different things are.
Different parts of the world. Amazing.
The fire Department even came out using hoses to clean the
debris that came off the Hills on the highway here.
They have traffic stopped as they push
it down off the cliff over there.
I guess there is no reports of
any injuries but I'm sure there's people
injured from falling walls and different things.
Yeah, they are prone for large earthquakes
and they've had them in the past
sending prayers to everybody there.
What are your thoughts? The clean up.
How fast they got out there is just utterly amazing.
Please put those comments down below.
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