Whole Lot Of Shaking
The USGS is showing a series of quakes in the Gulf of California/Mar de Cortés between Santa Isabel, Baja and La Doce, Sonora, around the North-South midpoint of the Gulf.
It started at 12:55:23 with a 5.8, then the big one at 12:59:56 6.9, at 13:33:34 5.0, and at 13:40:50 a 5.9 6.2. [Times are in CDT, subtract 2 hours for local time, PDT]
The San Andreas has been grumbling for a while, indicating that there is definite stress in the area.
No reports of damage, but there aren’t a lot of people in the area, and communications are not always the best when nothing is happening.
Update: the last quake was upgraded from 5.9 to 6.2 and is deeper than the three earlier events.
