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Hi,

I lived in Mexico City for about 25 years and used to feel earthquakes and then after moving to central Mexico, a place allegedly with no earthquake activity, well yesterday the strong 7.6 Richter scale earthquake at 18:05 UTC was felt in my Observatory.

Suddenly I started to get dizzy and did not know why until I saw two chains swinging nicely in unison and said to myself " Earthquake " and yes after a few minutes the news reported the earthquake ... Everything is fine just the strange feeling of having had an earthquake again :lol:

I felt it quite strong comparing to my experiences while living in Mexico City.

The epicenter was located about 470 km from my place in straight line ... Of course a lot of replicas going on. According to the Mexican Seismological system there have been up to now 692 replicas. The latest with 4.2 magnitude.

Look at the attached image . I am in San Luis Potosi which you will find on the upper right quadrant.

Still cloudy and I will need to check the polar alignment of my mounts and see if something moved. The builders and architects up here are not preapred for building earthquake safe.

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Post by Radon86 »

Very interesting.

Although not in an earthquake zone, in greater London (clay surface), I do feel tremors when lorries or heavier vehicles (like trucks loading sand or building material) pass through my area. I can feel vibrations when I am asleep. So we all probably suffer with some type of tremor.

We live on an earth with active tectonics and plate movements...on top of a molten core of iron and rock !

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Post by Montana »

Wonderful planetary science in motion, but not quite the motion you want on a daily basis ;) I hope everything is alright for you.

I know that Eric seems to get some bad ones :(

About 20 years ago in Manchester we had a run of about 4 earthquakes over a series of weeks, it was quite scary at the time when I was work. Nothing for 20 years now so I expect we are probably about due ;)

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Hi,

Today again one at about 06:16 UTC with a magnitude of 6.9 ...

This one did not move the ground where I live. In the Map below you can see the seismic activity in Mexico. Yuu will find me in the center of the Map and you can see it is seldom.

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I am glad you are ok. Quakes have to be quite scary. I am glad nothing was damaged. Hopefully you will be able to return to your frequent solar imaging.

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