A POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE HAS STRUCK A TOWN NEAR MEXICO CITY AND SO
FAR, AS OF THIS MOMENT, THE DEATH TOLL HAS REACHED 100
PEOPLE.
IT WAS A MAGNITUDE 7.1 EARTHQUAKE AND WE DO HAVE SOME
FOOTAGE THAT WE WILL TOSS TO RIGHT NOW AS B ROLL WHILE I GIVE
YOU MORE DETAILS ON WHAT'S GOING ON.
THESE VIDEOS WERE ACTUALLY SHARED TO US BY A VIEWER BY THE
NAME OF JORGE, SO I WANT TO THANK HIM FOR SHARING
THIS WITH US.
THAT IS A SCENE FEATURING PEOPLE ON THESE TOURIST BOATS AND YOU
CAN ALSO SEE SOME DAMAGE THERE, THE HIGHWAYS ARE DESTROYED.
THERE ARE BUILDINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.
DURING THE QUAKE, MORE THAN 20 BUILDINGS AND OTHER
STRUCTURES FELL, INCLUDING AT LEAST TWO SCHOOLS, OFFICIAL
SAID, CRUSHING CARS AND TRAPPING SOME PEOPLE INSIDE.
IT ALSO CAME LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER THE MOST POWERFUL
EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO IN A CENTURY, A MAGNITUDE 8.1
QUAKE THAT KILLED AT LEAST 90
PEOPLE, DESTROYED THOUSANDS OF HOMES AND WAS FELT BY TENS
OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN MEXICO AND IN GUATEMALA.
THE INCREDIBLE THING IS THAT THIS EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED ON
THE ANNIVERSARY OF A HUGE EARTHQUAKE THAT OCCURRED IN
MEXICO CITY IN 1985.
IT KILLED AS MANY AS 10,000 PEOPLE IN MEXICO, SO THERE WERE
INDIVIDUALS DOING EARTHQUAKE DRILLS AS THIS QUAKE HIT WHICH
IS AMAZING AND IT'S ALSO DEVASTATING.
ALL OF THESE NATURAL DISASTERS ARE STRIKING AT ONCE
AND PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES, THEY ARE LOSING
THEIR LIVES, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY ABOUT IT
OTHER THAN IT IS SO INCREDIBLY DEPRESSING.
THERE ARE A LOT OF FACTORS THAT GO INTO IT BECAUSE
WE'RE BOTH FROM THE VALLEY AND WE LIVED TO THE NORTHRIDGE
EARTHQUAKE IN 1994 AND THAT WAS A 6.8 EARTHQUAKE.
THE THING TO KNOW ABOUT THE RICHTER SCALE IS
EXPONENTIAL NOT LINEAR SO THE BIGGER IT IS, OVER A
NUMBER, IT ACTUALLY GETS EXPONENTIALLY LARGER SO A
7.1 QUAKE IS MUCH STRONGER THAN A 6.8 QUAKE.
ANOTHER ASPECT OF IT THAT GOES INTO CONSIDERATION IS THE
TIME OF DAY.
THE NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE WAS A 431 IN THE MORNING AND PEOPLE
WERE IN THEIR HOMES AS OPPOSED TO EARTHQUAKES LIKE THIS ONE AND
THEN THERE WAS ONE IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE 80S DURING A
WORLD SERIES GAMES ARE PEOPLE ARE OUT AND ABOUT AND EACH
SITUATION BRINGS ITS OWN DANGER IS NOT TO MENTION THE LOCATION
AND THE KIND OF, WHAT'S UNDERNEATH THE CITY AND WHERE
CITY IS BUILT SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT MEXICO CITY AND
EARTHQUAKES A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE MORE AFRAID, THERE HAD BEEN
REPORTS FROM THE PREVIOUS EARTHQUAKE WERE FOLKS, EVEN
THOUGH THAT WAS OFF THE COAST TO THE SOUTH, PEOPLE FELT IN MEXICO
CITY AND OUT OF FEAR, THEY DID WITH THEY DO IN MEXICO CITY
WHICH IS MORE OFTEN, RUN INTO THE STREET BECAUSE UNDERNEATH
MEXICO CITY, A LOT OF IT IS BUILT ON THE LAKEBED AS A POSTER
HARD BEDROCK WHICH LENDS ITSELF MORE TO STABLE CONSTRUCTION.
THERE'S A LOT OF FACTORS THAT GO INTO IT.
YOU SEE THEM ALL PLAY OUT AT ONCE AND IT INCREASES THE
DEVASTATION, NOT TO MENTION ALL THE COLLATERAL ISSUES LIKE
GAS LEAKS AND MAYBE TRIGGERED, BUYERS, BUILDINGS THAT
DEPENDING ON WHEN THEY WERE CREATED AND BUILT ARE
ENGINEERED TO WITHSTAND
LIKE THIS OR NOT AND THEN YOU'LL SEE DIFFERENT
POCKETS THAT JUST RANDOMLY SUFFERED MORE DEVASTATION THAN
OTHERS BASED ON THE GEOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF THAT SITE.
EXACTLY.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE DEATH TOLL IS EXPECTED TO RISE AS THE
STORY DEVELOPS.
THIS EARTHQUAKE DID STRIKE TODAY IN THE AFTERNOON AND SO
OBVIOUSLY THESE ARE PRELIMINARY REPORTS.
WILL HAVE MORE INFORMATION, OR DETAILS AS THE STORY
DEVELOPS, BUT IT'S AMAZING.
LAST NIGHT THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE IN LOS ANGELES.
IT WAS SMALL.
NO DAMAGE, NO DUST, NO NOTHING BUT WERE SEEING THESE
NATURAL DISASTERS OVER THE PLACE RIGHT NOW AND IT'S CONCERNING.
OBVIOUSLY THERE CAUSED BY DIFFERENT THINGS.
ALSO PSYCHOLOGICALLY, IT SEEMS LIKE IT ALL IS
HAPPENING AT ONCE AND THE EFFECT THAT THAT HAS ON EVERYBODY.
ALSO, THE AFTERSHOCKS SO THIS IS NOT THE ONLY QUAKE THAT
WILL HAPPEN.
THIS CAME TWO WEEKS AFTER THE MOST RECENT QUAKE AND THEN
WHEN THERE IS ANY KIND OF EARTHQUAKE, THE IMMEDIATELY
THING YOU THINK OF IS THIS A FORESHOCK OR THE MAIN EVENT?
IF IT'S A 7.1 EARTHQUAKE IMMEDIATELY ALL THE
SEISMOLOGISTS SAY THERE MIGHT BE A LARGE ONE JUST AROUND THE
CORNER BUT EVEN IF THERE'S NOT, I REMEMBER DURING THE NORTHRIDGE
QUAKE, 5.5 EARTHQUAKES WERE THE NORM FOR THE NEXT WEEK.
I REMEMBERED THAT WE WERE SITTING OUTSIDE IN THE
FRONT YARD.
WE HAD A FRIENDS RV DOWN THE STREET MAKING HOT CHOCOLATE
FOR EVERYBODY.
HEART GOES OUT TO EVERYONE IN MEXICO IS AFFECTED BY THIS AND
WE WILL KEEP YOU GUYS UPDATED ON THE STORY AS IT DEVELOPS.