Baja Earthquake Makes Splash in Santa Barbara

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake shook up much of Southern California and northern Baja on Sunday afternoon, but went largely unseen in Santa Barbara. Except on further Mesa, somewhere individual local quickly videotaped the shock waves in his pool.

The tremble struck on 3:40 p.M. Sunday, in Guadalupe Victoria as regards 108 miles east of Tijuana. Preliminary reports estimated the magnitude on 6.9, but Caltech seismologists anon raised the total to 7.2. The U.S. Geological Survey believed three strong aftershocks — individual a magnitude 5.1 — were felt in the Imperial County desert east of San Diego in an hour behind the most important temblor, and a magnitude-4.1 aftershock occurred in Santa Monica Bay south of Malibu.

There were veto immediate reports of injuries but the earthquake caused skyscrapers to influence in Los Angeles and San Diego. Disneyland officials in the short term bunged rides on the Anaheim theme square and public-safety agencies were glance bridges and buildings in place of potential structural spoil all over Southern California.

Here Santa Barbara, Glenn Avolio, a local of further Mesa, believed he and his wife, Rosa, hardly felt the tremble, “but the pool trusty did!”

“The pool wave lasted as regards five to 10 minutes,” he believed in an e-mail to Noozhawk, as well as a tape as resistant.



(Glenn Avolio video)

Despite the onto dry land wave stroke, the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center believed the tremble was doubtful to trigger a tsunami.

“A strong earthquake has occurred, but a tsunami is not predictable along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia or Alaska coast,” the crux, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, believed in a statement. “No tsunami alarm, watch or advisory is in effect in place of these areas.”

On Feb. 27, a small tsunami tide surged into Santa Barbara Harbor in hours of a deadly 8.8-magnitude tremble with the purpose of rocked central Chile. There were veto spoil or injuries locally.