Devastating earthquake that rocked Baja California and the southwestern United States, 4 April 2010, has shifted the city limits of California. Revealed by radar so the U.S. space agency, NASA. Calexico California - near the US-Mexico border shifted more than 2.5 feet or 80 inches to the south and the surface was decreased by an earthquake with a strength of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
Violent earthquake called El Maj-Cucapah, centered at 52 kilometers south from the southeast of Calexico - this is the biggest earthquake that shook the region in 120 years. Two people were killed and hundreds injured.
NASA radar to find the shift in the Calexico area affected by an earthquake swept by radar. Unmanned aircraft owned by NASA - Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) - at an altitude of 12 496 meters to record the extent of earthquake damage to the formation of Earth.
"UAVSAR allow scientists to see details of the earthquake fault system Baja [California] that is activated by the main earthquake and aftershocks," NASA's Jet Thrusters Laboratory researcher, Scott Hensley, such as pages loaded Live Science.
This is Not First Shift
This is not the first time since earthquake shifted the city. Earthquake with a strength of 8.8 on the Richter scale that shook Chile beginning in 2010, shifting the city Conception at least 10 feet or 3 meters. This was the largest earthquake recorded five numbers in history.
Another example of how seismic shift the city, is the 6.9 earthquake that shook SR Loma Prieta in 1989 - which occurred along the San Andreas faults in Southern California. At that time the Pacific plate moves 6.2 feet or about 2 meters to the northwest and 1.3 meters to top the North American plate.
In a long time, earthquakes and the shifting boundary line occurs on Earth. Ground motion caused City San Andreas San Francisco moved to Los Angeles with the rate of motion of 2 inches per year. The two cities will be united next few million years. Earthquakes can also shifts the axis of the Earth, changing the length of day on the planet. Chile earthquake, for example, shortening the time the Earth 1.26 microseconds.
Violent earthquake called El Maj-Cucapah, centered at 52 kilometers south from the southeast of Calexico - this is the biggest earthquake that shook the region in 120 years. Two people were killed and hundreds injured.
NASA radar to find the shift in the Calexico area affected by an earthquake swept by radar. Unmanned aircraft owned by NASA - Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) - at an altitude of 12 496 meters to record the extent of earthquake damage to the formation of Earth.
"UAVSAR allow scientists to see details of the earthquake fault system Baja [California] that is activated by the main earthquake and aftershocks," NASA's Jet Thrusters Laboratory researcher, Scott Hensley, such as pages loaded Live Science.
This is Not First Shift
This is not the first time since earthquake shifted the city. Earthquake with a strength of 8.8 on the Richter scale that shook Chile beginning in 2010, shifting the city Conception at least 10 feet or 3 meters. This was the largest earthquake recorded five numbers in history.
Another example of how seismic shift the city, is the 6.9 earthquake that shook SR Loma Prieta in 1989 - which occurred along the San Andreas faults in Southern California. At that time the Pacific plate moves 6.2 feet or about 2 meters to the northwest and 1.3 meters to top the North American plate.
In a long time, earthquakes and the shifting boundary line occurs on Earth. Ground motion caused City San Andreas San Francisco moved to Los Angeles with the rate of motion of 2 inches per year. The two cities will be united next few million years. Earthquakes can also shifts the axis of the Earth, changing the length of day on the planet. Chile earthquake, for example, shortening the time the Earth 1.26 microseconds.