LOS ANGELES- A 7.2 magnitude earthquake centered in Baja California, Mexico was felt all over Southern California, rocking high rise buildings from San Diego to Los Angeles, but there were no immediate reports of major damage.
One man died when his home collapsed on him, Baja California state Civil Protection Director Alfredo Escobedo. The man’s home was very close to the quake’s epicenter, just outside Mexical.
According to Escobedo, there are reports of people trapped in more home collapses in Mexicali and rescue teams from nearby Tijuana are rushing over to the city to aid.
The preliminary magnitude-6.9 quake struck about 6 miles below the earth’s surface at 3:40 p.m. PT, about 110 miles east-southeast of Tijuana, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
After examining data, seismologists upgraded the size of Sunday’s 25-second quake from a magnitude 6.9 to 7.2, according to Dr. Lucy Jones of Caltech.
“This is the largest earthquake since the [7.3 magnitude] Landers earthquake of 1992,” Jones said, “A 7.2 is going to happen over a pretty long fault, probably close to 50 miles long.” Seismologists are working to determine which of a series of faults the quake occurred on.
According to reports, the temblor’s force caused high-rise buildings in San Diego to sway back and forth around 30 seconds before rocking high-rise buildings in downtown Los Angeles.
Caltech officials report that over 20 million people felt shaking related to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake.
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