tijuana, mexico, april 4 (reuters) - a strong 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck in baja california, mexico, on sunday, rocking buildings and panicking residents as far away as tijuana and los angeles but there were no immediate reports of damage.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/n04157469.htmon 4/4/2010 10
40 pm utc an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 and depth 10km has struck an highly populated area in the baja california province (population: 1.8 million) in mexico. gdacs estimates the likelihood for need of international humanitarian intervention to be medium (orange alert).
this earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact since the affected region is highly populated and has high resilience for natural disasters.
the earthquake 58km from the city of mexicali. the nearest populated places are alberto oviedo (14km), puerto asufre (3km), durango (12km). it is a mountainous region with a maximum altitude of 1867 m.
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