oklahoma city is not impressed.

Repeat from 1985?

Quick, get down there and drill for natural gas!

"Please God, keep us safe from this earthquake that you saw fit to unleash upon us in the first place, you all-knowing, merciful godhead. Praise be!"

fun!
+1 subby.

Phil Moskowitz: Quick, get down there and drill for natural gas!

+2 for you

Now I want bacon.

I was there in '85. First one I ever experienced. Seeing the streets split up and the rain of glass from the swaying buildings was something else.

Keep safe my family and expat farkers.

I too would be concerned if I lived in a highly seismic-active rift valley situated between two active volcanoes. HOW many people are there in Mexico City? 12, 14 million, something like that? Some day, that is going to be a very sad mass grave on a tragic scale that is difficult to comprehend.

100+ miles away from Mexico City now equals Mexico City?

/last night w/o aftershocks is old news
//Sandwich Aisles had some too
///mmmmm sandwich

FTFA: People in one part of the capital's upscale Condesa neighborhood ran out of their houses and gathered in the streets, hugging each other while some shook and began to cry.



+1

Too soon?

They must have pretty strict building codes and inspections, right?

This week in the Thunderdome!


Vs.



Two enter, one leaves.

It was just a bunch of Mexican jumping beans all getting together and doin' there thang. Nothing to see here.

Maybe you shouldn't build your city on a farking swamp.

turbidum: Maybe you shouldn't build your city on a farking swamp.

One day, lad, all of this will be yours.

I'm in Ankara, Turkey this week so I'm not laughing.

Mexico City, a place that you can go and live your life on the low.

turbidum: Maybe you shouldn't build your city on a farking swamp.

The past tenants didn't had so much of a problem. The problem lies with the new tenants that decided to drain the lake.

Lone Stranger: Mexico City, a place that you can go and live your life on the low.

I actually know someone who is doing this, an old friend of mine, which is why I even bother to care. He's making quite the living off illegal movie streaming that he's running out of some redirect servers, and can live like a king down there for what most of us would starve on here. Sure, he had to put jagged glass set into the walls around his new house to keep the riff-raff out, but since he married a national, he's not too concerned about being kidnapped for a ransom no one will pay. Still, I have no idea what he was running from here, but I hope that doesn't wind up being a bigger mistake while he's down there :/

I just flew back from Mexico City Thursday. Darn it, just missed it!

thespindrifter: I too would be concerned if I lived in a highly seismic-active rift valley situated between two active volcanoes. HOW many people are there in Mexico City? 12, 14 million, something like that? Some day, that is going to be a very sad mass grave on a tragic scale that is difficult to comprehend.

Mexico City isn't anywhere near any fault lines, unlike California. The only reason earthquakes matter is that the downtown core is basically built on sand that magnifies the effect of distant quakes, which is unfortunately where all the skyscrapers and densest concentrations of poor people live. Fortunately, they started enforcing building codes after 1985. The nearest active volcano is over 40 miles away from the southernmost suburbs of Mexico City, which is just a little less than the distance of Mt St Helens from Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA, which received nothing but a bit of ash from the biggest explosion in US history. (Lava and mud flows were only 17 miles long in that case.) So no, I don't see the apocalypse coming to Mexico City anytime soon, unless one of the cartels brings it.

At least it wasn't somewhere Americans care about.

/wait, what?